Author: Robert Morgan

Quotes

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

- 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.

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.

- Robert Morgan

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

- Robert Morgan

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 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

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.

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.

- 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.

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.

- Robert Morgan

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

- Robert Morgan

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

- Robert Morgan

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

- Robert Morgan

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