Essence Quote by Robert Morgan

“I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.” quote by Robert Morgan — Download Open image

“I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.”

Robert Morgan

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With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

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

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What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever,…

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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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The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of…

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Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

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The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in…

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I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

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Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those…

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This is the pathless path - returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is where the journey leads - shedding, like taking off layers of an onion, until you come to your essence. The key to the spiritual journey is not acquiring something outside of yourself. Rather it is shedding the veils…

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