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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

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

— Robert Morgan

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I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#cliches #dirt #encourage #enough #far

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

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

— Karl Von Clausewitz

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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

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