Top 56 Quotes by Robert Morgan

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

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

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.

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

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

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.

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

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