"The Language Poets are writing only about language……" — Robert Morgan
"The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end."
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59 Quotes by Robert Morgan
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- 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…