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Robert Morgan Quotes
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 Quotes
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. - Robert Morgan Quotes
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. Its delightful to distort size, to see something thats tiny as though it were vast. - Robert Morgan Quotes
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 Quotes
Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. - Robert Morgan Quotes
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. - Robert Morgan Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
I dont 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 Quotes
I dont think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you cant teach them is the very essence of poetry. - Robert Morgan Quotes
I dont think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. - Robert Morgan Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. - Robert Morgan Quotes
I love chapbooks. Theyre in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you cant sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems. - Robert Morgan Quotes
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. - Robert Morgan Quotes
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery. - Robert Morgan Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
I think that its more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. - Robert Morgan Quotes
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and its what gets you through. So its partly just curiosity to see what you can do. - Robert Morgan Quotes
If a poem is not memorable, theres probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. - Robert Morgan Quotes
If people associate me with a region, thats fine with me. - Robert Morgan Quotes
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. - Robert Morgan Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. - Robert Morgan Quotes
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. - Robert Morgan Quotes
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 Quotes
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