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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. "
Robert Morgan
Reflect
Famous
Values
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. "
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" 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. "
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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 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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
" 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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Best
Books
" 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
" 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
" 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
You
Teach
Taught
" 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 learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. "
Robert Morgan
Poetry
Think
Kind
" 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
" Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. "
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Narrative
Dramatic
Writing
" Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. "
Robert Morgan
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Over
Writing
" 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
" If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me. "
Robert Morgan
Fine
Me
Region
" Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there. "
Robert Morgan
Find
First
Young
" 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 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
" 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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Black
Voice
Mountain
" 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
" We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people. "
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Well
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People
" 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. "
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People
You
Time
" Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. "
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Been
Writing
Sensitive
" 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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Off
Family
Young