Quotes by Robert Morgan

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them...

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Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a...

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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

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Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that...

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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make...

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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can...

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One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time...

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One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the...

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Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have...

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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you...

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In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language...

#Robert Morgan