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

Robert Morgan
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  2. It's the little things that make big things happen. - Anthony T. Hincks

  3. Orfanages r fule of little misstakes, just like my Englich. - Anthony T. Hincks

  4. Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song? - James Frey

  5. Remembering this: weak faith is still faith. Little faith is still faith Pr. Paddick Van Zyl - Anonymous

More Quotes By Robert Morgan
  1. Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

  2. Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

  3. 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.

  4. It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

  5. Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

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