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“ Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. ”

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

~ Robert Morgan

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.

~ Robert Morgan

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

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

~ Robert Morgan