Quotes by : Robert Morgan

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.....

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization.....

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also....

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

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

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

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any....

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient....

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful....