“We mustn’t doubt in the darkness what God has showed us in the light.” — Robert Morgan Darkness Copy Share Image
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. — Robert Morgan Parent Copy Share Image
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. — Robert Morgan French Copy Share Image
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. — Robert Morgan Attention Copy Share Image
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it,… — Robert Morgan Impossible Copy Share Image
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. — Robert Morgan Education 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 Books Copy Share Image
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. — Robert Morgan Contemporary Copy Share Image
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. — Robert Morgan Chinese Copy Share Image
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to… — Robert Morgan Driven 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… — Robert Morgan Black 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 Education 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 Blood Copy Share Image
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age.… — Robert Morgan Age Copy Share Image
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language… — Robert Morgan Ancient Copy Share Image
“God never gives guidance for two steps at a time. I must take one step, and then I get light for the… — Robert Morgan Freedom 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 Around Copy Share Image
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It… — Robert Morgan Affinity 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 Famous writers Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a… — Robert Morgan Century Copy Share Image
“We practice biblical meditation by noting, quoting, and devoting ourselves to whatever passage of Scripture we’re reading or studying, based on the… — Robert Morgan Bible Copy Share Image
“Whenever I haven’t known what to do, I’ve just tried to do what comes next,” — Robert Morgan Comes Copy Share Image
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. — Robert Morgan American poetry Copy Share Image
Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. — Robert Morgan Distance Copy Share Image
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. — Robert Morgan Fiction Copy Share Image
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. — Robert Morgan Dramatic Copy Share Image
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. — Robert Morgan Connections Copy Share Image
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do… — Robert Morgan Cliche 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 Discovery 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 Details 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 Dead end Copy Share Image
A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive… — Robert Morgan Alive 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 Cinema 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 Family Copy Share Image
The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and… — Robert Morgan Book Copy Share Image
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there. — Robert Morgan Audience Copy Share Image
