Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan
ground walk
I like to just walk the ground of place I'm writing about.
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.
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.
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.
character thinking ideas
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.
art years ideas
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.