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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#form #goal #isolation #means #never

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead. ↗

— Julia Morgan

#down #job #know #lead #never

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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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. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#asian-american #been #break #into #lot

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#creative #creative writing #helped #i #industry

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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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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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#fact #form #good #make #poetry

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#exercise #inanimate #matter #war #will