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Robert Morgan

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Pendidikan

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.

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Kreativitas

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.

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Kreativitas

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.

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Kreativitas

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.

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Pendidikan

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.

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Kejujuran

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

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Kreativitas

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.

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Kreativitas

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.

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Kreativitas

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

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Pendidikan

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

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Kreativitas

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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Kreativitas

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

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Pendidikan

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

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Kreativitas

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.

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Kreativitas

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

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Pendidikan

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

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Pendidikan

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

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Keberanian

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

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Kreativitas

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

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Kreativitas

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

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