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" 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
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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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" The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. "
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" Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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My Life
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" Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. "
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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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Best
Enjoyment
" I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. "
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Think
Kind
" If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me. "
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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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Best
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. "
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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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