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.

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.