Robert Morgan Quotes

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to i... -Robert Morgan

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

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This quote suggests that poetry inherently draws attention to its linguistic and structural elements, highlighting the significance of language and form as integral components of the poetic medium, setting it apart from other forms of expression.

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.

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.

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.

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether ... -Robert Morgan

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

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.

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.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

I don't think the creative writing industry has he... -Robert Morgan

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

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This quote expresses a negative view of the impact of the creative writing industry on American poetry, implying that the commercial aspects or professionalization of the field may have had detrimental effects on the quality or integrity of poetry.

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.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 7... -Robert Morgan

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, mo... -Robert Morgan

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

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This quote highlights the significant influence and groundbreaking nature of French poetry on the development and evolution of modern poetry, suggesting that the French poetic tradition has had a more profound impact than the English poetic tradition.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in ... -Robert Morgan

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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