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Robert Morgan

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

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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 swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts."
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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 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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"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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"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
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"The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged."
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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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"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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