"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."
― Robert Morgan
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From Robert Morgan
- "I don’t think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can’t teach them is the very essence of poetry."
- "Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry."
- "The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse."
More In Poetry
- "I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything."― Steven Wright
- "So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders."― June Jordan
- "Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance."― Robert Frost