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Robert Morgan Quotes: The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
         

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.


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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.



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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.



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The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.





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