All Robert Morgan Quotes
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
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I 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.
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The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
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I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
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One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
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With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
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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.
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In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
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You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
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The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
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The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.
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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
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