Top 56 Quotes by Robert Morgan

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

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.

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.

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.