Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
Robert Morgan
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I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it. -
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. -
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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.