Top 56 Quotes by Robert Morgan

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

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

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

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.

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.

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.

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.