Top 56 Quotes by Robert Morgan

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.