"The great watershed of modern poetry is French,……" — Robert Morgan

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. - Robert Morgan

"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."

— Robert Morgan

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59 Quotes by Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them…
What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O…
Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through…
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach…
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one…
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much…
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to…
A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into…
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 English Quotes

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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time… — Christian Bale
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and… — Javier Bardem
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

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