"I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation."
― Robert Morgan
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From Robert Morgan
- "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."
- "What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can’t define it."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously."― Asghar Farhadi
- "All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."― Gilbert K. Chesterton
- "I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world."― Ruth Benedict