"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."
"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."
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Source: Robert Morley (1980). “Morley Matters”, London : Robson Books
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