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" I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else. "
Robert Morgan
New York
Special
City
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" If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me. "
Robert Morgan
Fine
Me
Region
" 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
" 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
" 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
Students
Stereotypes
" The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. "
Robert Morgan
More
Modern
English
" 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
Memorable
Wrong
Free
" In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking. "
Robert Morgan
Late
Early
Person
" I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. "
Robert Morgan
Poetry
Think
Kind
" The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. "
Robert Morgan
Will
Poetry
Fact
" I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do. "
Robert Morgan
Curiosity
Life
Myself
" Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. "
Robert Morgan
Narrative
Dramatic
Writing
" 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
" 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 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
Three
Best
Books
" Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. "
Robert Morgan
Only
Perspective
Distance
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Morgan
I Am
Never
Thought
" 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
" 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
" 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
" In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. "
Robert Morgan
Language
Best
Invisible
" 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
" One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. "
Robert Morgan
Way
Go
Poetry
" 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
" 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
" With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed. "
Robert Morgan
Own
Details
You
" 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
" Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. "
Robert Morgan
Important
The Most Important
Poetry
" When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture. "
Robert Morgan
People
You
Time
" 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. "
Robert Morgan
Black
Voice
Mountain