Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
Edwin Morgan
I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.
Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.
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... →
Robert Morgan
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go... →
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny... →
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.