Robert Morgan may refer to:
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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start. Use this quote
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. Use this quote
