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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. "
Robert Morgan
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Rock And Roll
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" If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me. "
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" Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. "
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" In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. "
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" Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. "
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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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" It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. "
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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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You
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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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" 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
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Going
Film
" 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
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Poetry
Art
" 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 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
" 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
" 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
" The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. "
Robert Morgan
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" I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. "
Robert Morgan
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" 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
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" 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. "
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Past
" 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
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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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" Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. "
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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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" 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
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" 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. "
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Early
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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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