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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.

Robert Morgan

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Robert Morgan
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 3
Biographer
Novelist
Poet
Hendersonville
North Carolina
Around
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Going
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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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I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
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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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Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
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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.
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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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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
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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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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
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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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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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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
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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.
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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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We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
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