Robert Morgan Quotes

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

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

Experience, Far, Less

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

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.
Robert Morgan

Life, Person, Working

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
Robert Morgan

Time, Powerful, Human

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
Robert Morgan

Poetry, Powerful, Talking

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
Robert Morgan

Poetry, Famous, Same

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
Robert Morgan

Love, Poetry, Fact

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

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
Robert Morgan

Poetry, Important, Writing

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
Robert Morgan

Best, Short, Times

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.
Robert Morgan

Character, Black, Voice

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

Poetry, Decision, Made

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
Robert Morgan

Good, Poetry, Fact

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

Great, Poetry, English

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
Robert Morgan

Art, Poetry, Idea

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

Poetry, End, Writing

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
Robert Morgan

Age, Poetry, Rock

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
Robert Morgan

Long, Read, Known

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Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: 1944

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