"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet." ― Robert Morgan Topic(s): Humor More From Robert Morgan "The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse." "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." "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." More In Humor "People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family."― Keith Henson "I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it’s humor that’s often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery."― Danny Boyle "It’s self-effacing, it’s hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor."― Jerry Leiber