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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.

Robert Morgan

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Robert Morgan
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 3
Biographer
Novelist
Poet
Hendersonville
North Carolina
Live
Sing
Altogether
Allow
Tender
Neither
Angels
Missing
Mood
Imponderable
Mystery
Sadness
Manger
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Miss
Moods
Dark
Sky
Skies
Christian
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Emerge

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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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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
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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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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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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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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
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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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I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.
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