Robert Morgan Quotes & Sayings
56 most famous Robert Morgan quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a Australian poet ..
“Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.”
“I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.”
“Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.”
“Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.”
“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.”
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