Quotes by : Robert Morgan

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the....

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort....

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing....

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you....

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that....

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the....

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't....

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

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

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