All 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.
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Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
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I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
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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.
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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.
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