"I seem to keep returning to my father……" — Robert Morgan
"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. 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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59 Quotes by Robert Morgan
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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…
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What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to…
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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…
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A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry…
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How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting…
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we,…
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