One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
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,… - Robert Morgan
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,…
- Robert Morgan
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… - Robert Morgan
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…
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. - Robert Morgan
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
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 doin… - Robert Morgan
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 doin…
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. - Robert Morgan
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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 f… - Robert Morgan
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 f…
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 write… - Robert Morgan
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 write…
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. - Robert Morgan
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
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 p… - 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 p…
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