“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
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The fact that something is in a
“The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.”
— Robert Morgan
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In the later books I am much
“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
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The Language Poets are writing only about
“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
Author: Robert Morgan
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A poem in form still has to
“A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.”
— Robert Morgan
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The great watershed of modern poetry is
“The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.”
— Robert Morgan
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Some people swear by writing courses, but
“Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.”
— Robert Morgan
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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on
“Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.”
— Robert Morgan
Author: Robert Morgan
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One of the most powerful devices of
“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
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The idea of avant-garde art is a
“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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