"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense……" — Robert Morgan
"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet."
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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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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a…
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Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
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I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and…
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in…
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary…
— Joseph Campbell
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Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of…
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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values…
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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away…
— Francesca Annis
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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I…
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