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Robert Morgan Quotes

American - Poet | 1944 -

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

Perspective Nostalgia Distance Only

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

Great Yourself Poetry Deep You Back

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Art Poetry Think Way Size See

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.

Character Mountain Voice Black Early

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

Life Myself Writing Curiosity You

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

Poetry Writing Think Will More Than

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 poetry in translation.

Mathematics Poetry Through Interest

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

Voice Talking Early Late Person Get

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

Poetry Important Little Translation

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Experience Language You Create Go

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

Home I Am Thought Language Never

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Great Poetry More Modern English

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