Quote by Robert Morgan
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. – Robert Morgan

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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. – Robert Morgan

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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. – Robert Morgan

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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery OConnor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques. – Robert Morgan

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. – Norman O. Brown

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Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem. – Maxine Hong Kingston

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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock n roll was asleep. – Patti Smith

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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that Ive found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. – Marilyn Hacker

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