#thing

Nothing personal - I am just doing my job. ↗

— Manny Pacquiao

#doing #i #i am #job #just

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

#did #driven #everything #excess #extreme

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

#free verse #memorable #much #poem #poetry

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#books #critic #describe #had #home

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

#discovering #elementary #experience #far #go

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#chinese #eliot #i #important #important thing

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. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#avant-garde #being #every #idea #keeps

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#i #nothing #novel #offer #revolutionary

We're not inherently anything but human. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#human #inherently

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#another #because #characteristic #commits #group