Author: Robert Morgan

Quotes

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

- Robert Morgan

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

- Robert Morgan

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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