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Quotes by Robert Morgan
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
- I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
- I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
- I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
- 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.
- 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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