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" I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. "
Robert Morgan
Think
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" Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. "
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" Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. "
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" Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start. "
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" I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. "
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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 them is the very essence of poetry. "
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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. "
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" Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. "
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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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" 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. "
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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 same values, some of the same techniques. "
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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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" Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. "
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American
Best
Enjoyment
" I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing. "
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Going
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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 voice and character. "
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Voice
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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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" In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. "
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Never
Thought
" If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me. "
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Me
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" Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. "
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" Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there. "
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