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"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."
"The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions."
"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."
"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."
"Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents."
"The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events."
Explore more quotes by Robert Morgan
"What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it."
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
"The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end."
"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."
"I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems."
"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."
"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."
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