Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
Robert MorganI 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 MorganPhilip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
Robert MorganAlchemy 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 as though it were vast.
Robert Morgan