Quote by Robert Morgan
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the

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. – Robert Morgan

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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. – Robert Morgan

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Age
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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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Poetry
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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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Tell me thy company, and Ill tell thee what thou art. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. – Laurence J. Peter

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I hate art auctions. – Jerry Saltz

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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. – George Santayana

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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. – Dalai Lama

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Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. – Virginia Woolf

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