News at Eleven: Did he enjoy passing on his literary knowledge

and enthusiasms to students? "Yes, I think so," he reflects. "A poet regards himself or herself as a kind of link in a very long chain, although you can’t lay down the law about poetry. A lot of poetry, like any other arts, slides past the rational part of the mind. There is something mysterious about poetry in the end, something that resists being explained too much."

All you can do, says Edwin Morgan, is give various pointers to what you enjoy and the kind of poetry you would like to see. "And of course it can help to see yourself as passing on the torch to another generation, but it would be foolish to think you could do this by yourself, obviously. We’re all part of some much larger attempt to make sense of things."

from The Herald: Poetry--Edwin Morgan at 90

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