Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan
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.
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.
ground walk
I like to just walk the ground of place I'm writing about.
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.
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.
writing thinking fiction
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
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.