"In the best fiction, the language itself can……" — Robert Morgan
"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
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59 Quotes by Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan has 59 quotes on this site.
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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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More Almost Invisible Quotes
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the…
— J. G. Ballard
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The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an…
— Robert Grudin
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We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult…
— Unknown Author
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A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a…
— Isaac Babel
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If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape…
— Bruce Friedrich
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has”: “I have had, you see, to…
— Witold Gombrowicz
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The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the…
— Emily Post
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A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental…
— Hermann Weyl
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It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last…
— Gustave Meyrink
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Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it…
— Alex Kingston
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold…
— Agnes Denes
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