“The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.”– Robert Morgan Related Quotes “Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.”– Carol Ann Duffy “I’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry.”– Ben Okri “Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”– Allen Ginsberg