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.
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. - Robert Morgan
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
- 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 most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that,…
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…
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…
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…
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. - Robert Morgan
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. - Robert Morgan
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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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