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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
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Robert Morgan
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 3
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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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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 love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
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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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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
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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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Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
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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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Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
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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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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
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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.
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One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
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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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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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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
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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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