Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan
thinking essence taught
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
writing thinking creative
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
teaching thinking kind
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
writing thinking fiction
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
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.
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.
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.
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.
creative dinner feed lunch seems
Breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. It seems like the better we feed them, the more creative they are.
came nine timing
We came up. We thought we'd be here about nine months. Things just clicked. The timing was good.
battle found heard military older studied
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.
cancel playing worse
To cancel would be worse PR than playing it,
beyond business ease element greed minds petroleum price recent responding whether
We would like to put people's minds at ease as to whether the petroleum business is responding to circumstances that are beyond its control, or if there is an element of greed in the recent price increases,