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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 something alive and surprising. "
Robert Morgan
Lot
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" The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. "
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" I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. "
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" Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. "
Robert Morgan
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" 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. "
Robert Morgan
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" I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems. "
Robert Morgan
Love
You
Sit
" Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. "
Robert Morgan
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Poetry
People
" 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. "
Robert Morgan
Me
Language
Kind
" Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. "
Robert Morgan
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Language
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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 of the free verse poetry is not memorable. "
Robert Morgan
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Wrong
Free
" It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. "
Robert Morgan
Create
Experience
You
" I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. "
Robert Morgan
Poetry
Think
Kind
" The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. "
Robert Morgan
Poetry
Decision
Narrative
" I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. "
Robert Morgan
Writing
Think
Past
" Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. "
Robert Morgan
Writing
Example
Powerful
" The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. "
Robert Morgan
People
Rock And Roll
Rock
" I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery. "
Robert Morgan
Love
Language
You Can Do It
" I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. "
Robert Morgan
Interest
Through
Poetry
" I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. "
Robert Morgan
Time
You
Words
" I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. "
Robert Morgan
Driven
Personality
Returning
" Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle. "
Robert Morgan
Me
Know
People
" 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 same values, some of the same techniques. "
Robert Morgan
Reflect
Famous
Values
" What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it. "
Robert Morgan
Define
See
Poetry
" You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does. "
Robert Morgan
Great
Back
Deep
" Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. "
Robert Morgan
Events
Intimacy
Places
" The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new. "
Robert Morgan
New
Poetry
Art
" A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. "
Robert Morgan
Discovery
Connection
Voice
" I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. "
Robert Morgan
More
Than
Think
" I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt. "
Robert Morgan
Stereotypes
Students
Dirt
" Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. "
Robert Morgan
Been
Writing
Sensitive
" One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person. "
Robert Morgan
House
My Life
Life