Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan
fiction language invisible
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
philosophical language preoccupation
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
facts language ancient
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
definitions attention language
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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.
help libraries
I like libraries a lot. I like to help libraries.
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Once all the results are in, I think this is going to be a positive earnings season. Some of the headline names have disappointed.
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I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
demands private recognize side
It's important to recognize people's demands from the private side of life.
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Breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. It seems like the better we feed them, the more creative they are.
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I'd always heard about that battle. As I got older and studied military history, I found that the Battle of Cowpens was studied all over the world.
everybody people wants
Most people think they are underpaid. Everybody wants to get more.
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I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.
They emptied 14 saddles in the first charge.