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" Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. "
Robert Morgan
Been
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" 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
" Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. "
Robert Morgan
Events
Intimacy
Places
" I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood. "
Robert Morgan
Know
Painful
Students
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there. "
Robert Morgan
Find
First
Young
" Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. "
Robert Morgan
Sense Of Humor
Tough
Humor
" 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 considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing. "
Robert Morgan
Filmmaking
Going
Film
" 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. "
Robert Morgan
Off
Family
Young
" 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
" I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. "
Robert Morgan
Poetry
Think
Kind
" 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
" Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. "
Robert Morgan
Narrative
Dramatic
Writing
" 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
" I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. "
Robert Morgan
Think
Writing
Poetry
" Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back. "
Robert Morgan
Poetry
Love
Authority
" 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
Poetry
Language
Attention
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. "
Robert Morgan
Important
Over
Writing
" In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. "
Robert Morgan
Language
Best
Invisible
" 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
" 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
" 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