Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan
bullish fed generally good reasonably time
Historically, when the Fed has paused, that has generally been a good time for stocks. We're reasonably bullish on stocks.
demands private recognize side
It's important to recognize people's demands from the private side of life.
pleasure sounds unexpected writer
Part of the pleasure of being a writer is that you get to go to unexpected places. If a place sounds interesting, I like to go.
ground walk
I like to just walk the ground of place I'm writing about.
balance deal employees schedule spending time ways
It's one of the ways employees deal with work-life balance issues. Because we're spending so much time at work, that's the only time we have to schedule some of those appointments.
writing language kind
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.
writing curiosity way
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.
character voice hiking
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.
art thinking way
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.
honesty tough sense-of-humor
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
rhyming facts blank
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
writing blood students
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 writer has to draw blood.
thinking these-days best-poetry
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.
rocks mtv rock-and-roll
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.