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" 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
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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. "
Robert Morgan
Late
Early
Person
" 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
" Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. "
Robert Morgan
Events
Intimacy
Places
" 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
" 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
" If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me. "
Robert Morgan
Fine
Me
Region
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
Dirt
" The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. "
Robert Morgan
More
Modern
English
" If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. "
Robert Morgan
Memorable
Wrong
Free
" Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. "
Robert Morgan
Narrative
Dramatic
Writing
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. "
Robert Morgan
Some
Poetry
People
" 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
" It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. "
Robert Morgan
Create
Experience
You
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. "
Robert Morgan
Only
Perspective
Distance
" 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
" 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