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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.

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Distance not only gives nostal...

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

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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.

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Fiction is about intimacy with...

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

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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.

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I love to create interesting t...

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

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You have to really dive deep b...

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

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If a poem is not memorable, th...

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

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It was less a literary thing t...

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

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A lot of my students are Asian...

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 84 quotes

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.

Robert Morgan 84 quotes

I considered going to film sch...

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

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I don't think the creative wri...

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

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I encourage students to pursue...

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.

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