#poem

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. ↗

— 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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I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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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. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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