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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. "
Robert Morgan
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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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" 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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" Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. "
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Intimacy
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" I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt. "
Robert Morgan
Stereotypes
Students
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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. "
Robert Morgan
See
Size
Poetry
" 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
" 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 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
" 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
" Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. "
Robert Morgan
Narrative
Dramatic
Writing
" 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
" I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. "
Robert Morgan
Poetry
Think
Kind
" 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. "
Robert Morgan
American
Best
Enjoyment
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Morgan
Define
See
Poetry
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Morgan
Well
Known
People
" 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
" 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
" Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. "
Robert Morgan
Poetry
Language
Attention
" Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. "
Robert Morgan
Only
Perspective
Distance
" In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. "
Robert Morgan
Language
Best
Invisible
" 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
" The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. "
Robert Morgan
Will
Poetry
Fact
" If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me. "
Robert Morgan
Fine
Me
Region
" 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
Driven
Personality
Returning
" 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 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
" Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. "
Robert Morgan
Some
Poetry
People
" 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