Robert Morgan Quotes

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
Robert Morgan

Maybe, Distance, Nostalgia

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

Poetry, Through, Interest

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
Robert Morgan

Poetry, Free, Problems

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
Robert Morgan

Through, Alive, Students

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
Robert Morgan

Poetry, Sense, Voice

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
Robert Morgan

Fiction, Places, Characters

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
Robert Morgan

School, Writing, Film

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
Robert Morgan

Poetry, Young, Teach

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
Robert Morgan

Poetry, Writing, Creative

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
Robert Morgan

Enough, Far, Idea

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
Robert Morgan

Poetry, Person, Learned

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
Robert Morgan

Love, Long, Language

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
Robert Morgan

Father, Keep, Seem

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

Poetry, Writing, Rather

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.
Robert Morgan

Fine, Region, Associate

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

Best, Become, Language

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

Home, Thought, Until

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
Robert Morgan

Powerful, Writing, Themselves

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
Robert Morgan

Parents, Writing, Sensitive

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

Humor, Honesty, Find

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

Poetry, Attention, Language

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
Robert Morgan

Poetry, Important, Read

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
Robert Morgan

Poetry, Writing, American

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
Robert Morgan

Though, Call, Writer

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
Robert Morgan

Writing, Dramatic, Poets

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: 1944

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