Top 56 Quotes by Robert Morgan

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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