"Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts." ― Robert Morgan Topic(s): Poetry More From Robert Morgan "Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners." "I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale." "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." More In Poetry "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."― Robert Morgan "I prefer ordinary girls – you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn’t mean we are dating."― Leonardo DiCaprio "The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths."― Gilbert Murray