Top 56 Quotes by Robert Morgan

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

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

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

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

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

I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

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

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.