I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
