Robert Morgan Poetry Quotes

What did Robert Morgan say about Poetry?

Robert Morgan has written many quotes about Poetry. E.g.,

• 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.

What are the top most famous Poetry quotes by Robert Morgan?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Poetry by 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.
• 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.
• I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
• If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
• I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
• Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
• You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
• The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.