Top 56 Quotes by Robert Morgan

I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.

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.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

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

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

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

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

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.

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