“Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.”– Robert Morgan Related Quotes “The poet doesn’t invent. He listens.”– Jean Cocteau “I’m not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent – you can’t just do it like that.”– Samantha Morton “when we were eleven, say, we really weren’t interested in each other’s poems at all. . . . But we didn’t know a thing about poetry. We didn’t care about it.”— Kazuo Ishiguro