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Robert Morgan
American Poet
Born: 1944
About Language People Think Writing You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. Robert Morgan
Perspective Distance Objectivity Only Gives Maybe Nostalgia
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
Alive Has-Been Something Thrilling Through Students Stereotypes Been Surprising Lot Break Them Asian-American Watch
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. Robert Morgan
Best Language Become Almost Invisible Itself Fiction
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
Life Myself You Writing Build Way See Through Write Partly Around Curiosity Gets Going Just Your Keeping
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
Mathematics Translation Background Poetry Through Also Sciences Came Very Did Literary Interest Chinese Japanese
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
Late Poem Voice Voices Like Talking Narration Making Sound Real Person Real Person Get Did Interested Early
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
You Experience Language Philosophical Immediate How How Far Go Discovering Linguistic Than Literary Far Create Less Preoccupation Elementary Thing
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
Home Language Thought Books Later Critic Out More Pointed Never Had Until Am Much Use Describe Things
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. Robert Morgan
Great Watershed More Poetry French Than Modern Modern Poetry English
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
Best Think Several Poetry Written Days Contemporaries Most Read North Southerners American Being Among Enjoyment
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
Me Writing Language Kind About Seems Only Poetry Poets Dead Dead End End Itself
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. Robert Morgan
Writing Dramatic Poems Poets Narrative Still Southern Forms
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. Robert Morgan
Writing Example Has-Been Poets Powerful Sort Been Southern Maybe Fiction Fiction Writing Themselves
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle. Robert Morgan
Me People Some People Though Some Writer Know Call Labels Want Regional Use Appalachian Even Belittle
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. Robert Morgan
Language Definition Poetry Almost Attention Calls Form
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
Decision Made Reading More Poetry Write Writers No-One Prose Instead Almost Readers Narrative Verse Than Interested
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
People Long Poems Written Well Read Well Known Known Narrative Lot Very Century Many
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. Robert Morgan
Writing Important Own Ways Some Poetry Excitement Taking Over Years Your Teaching Away
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. Robert Morgan
You Young Think Something Poetry Writers Encourage Very Essence Taught Them Young Writers Teach
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. Robert Morgan
Creative Writing Think Poetry Industry American Helped Creative Writing
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
Family Young Everyone Find About Only Take Writers Almost Almost Everyone Since Off Subjects Often Stories Place Young Writers Start
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
Pay Enough See Only Dirt Pursue Students Idea Stereotypes Cliches Encourage Begin Hit Far Then
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
Personality Father Everything Extreme Seem Poems Excess Driven He Returning Because His Did Keep
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
Love You Sit Down Publish Way Ways Some Poems Ideal Read Form Which Pages
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. Robert Morgan
Writing Parents Has-Been Neither About Been Very Sensitive
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
You Way Minute About Poetry Lifetime Powerful Devices Most Most Powerful Talking Passes Go Century Use
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