Top 56 Quotes by Robert Morgan

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.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

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

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

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

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.

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

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

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.