All Robert Morgan Quotes
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
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Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
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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.
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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.
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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
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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.
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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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