Robert Morgan

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

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.

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

It goes all the way back to 'Psycho.' Movies with twists like that are memorable because they're so simple.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.