Robert Morgan

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.

Tags: History, Science, Character

Robert Morgan

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Tags: Understand, Why, Talk

Robert Morgan

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.

Tags: Music, Movies, School

Robert Morgan

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Tags: Far, Less, Language

Robert Morgan

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

Tags: Poetry, Same, Sense

Robert Morgan

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.

Tags: Priority, Traditions

Robert Morgan

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Tags: Honesty, Find, Tough

Robert Morgan

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.

Tags: Thought, Until, Language

Robert Morgan

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.

Tags: Through, Did, Interest

Robert Morgan

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

Tags: Writing, Rather, Fiction

Robert Morgan

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