Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan
everybody people wants
Most people think they are underpaid. Everybody wants to get more.
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.
balance deal employees ways
It's one of the ways employees deal with work-life balance issues.
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.
technique famous-writers make-sense
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.
house isolation painter
One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.
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.
powerful talking way
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
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.