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. Robert Morgan More Quotes by Robert Morgan More Quotes From Robert Morgan 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. Robert Morgan poetry-is problem memorable It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. Robert Morgan preoccupation philosophical language 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. Robert Morgan break-through asian watches A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. Robert Morgan connections voice discovery I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing. Robert Morgan movie writing school We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to emerge from the tender sadness of the manger to sing with the angels in the skies above. Robert Morgan sadness inspiration christian What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never Outlive my love for Thee. Robert Morgan sorrow forever love I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. Robert Morgan creative writing thinking One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person. Robert Morgan painter isolation house 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. Robert Morgan famous-writers make-sense technique 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. Robert Morgan language kind writing The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. Robert Morgan watersheds modern poetry-is 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. Robert Morgan ancient language facts Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. Robert Morgan definitions language attention Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. Robert Morgan teaching writing years The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new. Robert Morgan years ideas art We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people. Robert Morgan narrative long people 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. Robert Morgan courses poetry-is impossible Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there. Robert Morgan magazines littles firsts Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. Robert Morgan chinese important pounds
