Robert Morgan Quotes (79 Quotes)

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.

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.

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

We would not want to lose one person over this, and will do everything in our power and influence to make sure that doesn't happen,

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

The labor market is horrendous, ... Finding and keeping good people is consistently listed as one of the main concerns among our members in nationwide surveys.

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

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.

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

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

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

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.

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

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.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

With the latest increase, New Jersey families will spend another 543 to send their children to Rutgers this year. That's an unexpected expense that will put a strain on most families' budgets. We're asking our colleagues in the state Legislature to join us in supporting this bill's passage so that this does not happen again next year. We have a historic commitment to make higher education available to our students.

I'd always heard about that battle. As I got older and studied military history, I found that the Battle of Cowpens was studied all over the world.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

It's important to recognize people's demands from the private side of life.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.