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. (Robert Morgan)

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.

Robert Morgan

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