"The best books of our times have included……" — Robert Morgan
"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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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 Arranged Quotes
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's…
— Paul Auster
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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
— Luther Burbank
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
— Elias Canetti
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It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
— Julia Child
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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind
— Isaac Pitman
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions -…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.'
— Dave Barry
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The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles,…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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