“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
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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
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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
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“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
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“Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.”
— Robert Morgan
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“Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.”
— Robert Morgan
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“I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.”
— Robert Morgan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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