Author: Robert Morgan

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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

- 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

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