Quote by Robert Morgan
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find i

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. – Robert Morgan

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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. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry
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The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry
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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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Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. – Bill Cosby

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Theres always a source for humor. – Calvin Trillin

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Humor

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it arm around the shoulder humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. Its mean, mean stuff. – Robert Orben

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Humor

To me, sadness and humor arent disrelated and humor is the best tool Ive had against the sadness in my life. – Mike Mills

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Humor

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I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because youve lost human scale. – Harrison Ford

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The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. – Elizabeth Drew

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Its a problem for him because hes got – like Edward VII had – nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers. – Anthony Holden

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