The World Motivation
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
“Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.”
— Robert Morgan · Poets
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“Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.”
“Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.”
“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.”
“The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.”
“Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.”
“With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.”
“It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.”
“If offered a good role, I would like to work in a good Punjabi film. This land has produced great writers, poets and actors.”
“In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.”
“It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.”
“Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.”
“I've no idea what the attitude to me is among serious poets.”