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Robert Morgan

"Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity."

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"Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity."

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"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."
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"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
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"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."
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"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
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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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"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."
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"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."
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Robert Morgan
"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques."
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"The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry."
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"Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts."
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