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.
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.
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.
modern poetry-is watersheds
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
writing past thinking
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.
father personality excess
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
writing thinking creative
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
writing southern narrative
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
discovery voice gestures
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
fiction language invisible
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
decisions emotions hope stick tough
We made some tough decisions and now we need to stick to them and hope for better times. We can?t let emotions get in the way of decisions.