Top 56 Quotes by Robert Morgan

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.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

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

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

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.