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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

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.