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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

Paul Muldoon

Poetry

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

Paul Muldoon

Poetry

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

Poetry

People

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Jim Morrison

Poetry

Possibilities

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

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.

Robert Morgan

Poetry

Writers

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

Robert Morgan

Poetry

Connection