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Robert Morgan

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Kreativitas

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

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Cinta

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.

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Kreativitas

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

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Kreativitas

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

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Kreativitas

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

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Kreativitas

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

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Cinta

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

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Pendidikan

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

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