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Robert Morgan Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american poet Robert Morgan on topics like writing, language, poems

  • Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

    — Robert Morgan on distance
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  • 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 on cornell
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  • I write as a way of keeping myself going.

    You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

    — Robert Morgan on build
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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.

    — Robert Morgan on american
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  • I love to create interesting textures with language.

    You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

    — Robert Morgan on create
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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.

    — Robert Morgan on connection
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  • Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read.

    Eliot a little bit later.

    — Robert Morgan on bit
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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 on driven
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  • Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

    — Robert Morgan on attention
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  • 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 on connor
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  • In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

    — Robert Morgan on fiction
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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.

    — Robert Morgan on black
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  • About Robert Morgan

    Name Robert Morgan
    Quotes 56 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Poet
    Birthday October 16
    About Robert Morgan was raised on his family's farm in the North Carolina mountains. The author of eleven books of poetry and eight books of fiction, including the bestselling novel Gap Creek, he now lives in Ithaca, New York, where he teaches at Cornell University. See this thread for more information.
    Top topics writing, language, poems, people, form
  • 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 on create
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  • Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

    — Robert Morgan on appalachian
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  • 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 on art
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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.

    — Robert Morgan on family
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  • 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 on arranged
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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 on ancient
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  • I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

    — Robert Morgan on american
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  • 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 on barely
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  • 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 on alive
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  • Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

    — Robert Morgan on contemporary
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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.

    — Robert Morgan on 20th
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  • I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry.

    It comes from teaching, I think.

    — Robert Morgan on impersonate
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  • The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

    — Robert Morgan on english
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  • Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

    — Robert Morgan on audience
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  • 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 on free
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  • One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

    — Robert Morgan on accomplish
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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 on considered
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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 on analytical
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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 on details
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  • 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 on century
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  • 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 on dead
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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 on alchemy
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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.

    — Robert Morgan on careful
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  • Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

    — Robert Morgan on parents
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  • If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

    — Robert Morgan on associate
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  • 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.

    — Robert Morgan on decision
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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.

    — Robert Morgan on form
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  • I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

    — Robert Morgan on fiction
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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.

    — Robert Morgan on books
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  • 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 on affinity
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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 on age
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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 on begin
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  • 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 on characters
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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.

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

    — Robert Morgan on excitement
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  • 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 on define
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  • 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 on background
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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 on early
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