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I considered going to film school I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
Robert Morgan
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Robert Morgan
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 3
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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.
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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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We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to emerge from the tender sadness of the manger to sing with the angels in the skies above.
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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
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When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.
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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
Robert Morgan
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
Robert Morgan
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
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.
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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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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.
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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
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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 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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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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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.
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I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
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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
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
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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
