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Some people swear by writing c...

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

Robert Morgan 84 quotes

The Language Poets are writing...

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 84 quotes

In the later books I am much m...

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 84 quotes

Philip Larkin has a tough hone...

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

Robert Morgan 84 quotes

I did not have a very literary...

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 84 quotes

Our most famous writers are Fa...

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.

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The decision to write in prose...

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 84 quotes

Teaching writing over the year...

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

Robert Morgan 84 quotes

I don't think poetry is someth...

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 84 quotes

I don't think the creative wri...

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

Robert Morgan 84 quotes

Alchemy is the art of far and ...

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.

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I don't think American poetry ...

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

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I love to compare different ti...

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.

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One of the most powerful devic...

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.

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A poem in form still has to ha...

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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The fact that something is in ...

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

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What actually makes poetry poe...

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

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Part of what we love about poe...

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

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I learned to impersonate the k...

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Robert Morgan 84 quotes

The young people have MTV and ...

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 84 quotes

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