Robert Morgan Quotes
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We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to…
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What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And…
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Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
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I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and…
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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
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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…
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I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
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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…
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If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry…
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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
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A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
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A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
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I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
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I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
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I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to…
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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
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I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
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I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
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If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.
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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
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