“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”4 You can trust Him with the days ahead, for He… — Robert Morgan Time Copy Share Image
“His name was Sir William Osler, and these are the words he read: “Our main business is not to see what lies… — Robert Morgan Business Copy Share Image
“Whenever I haven’t known what to do, I’ve just tried to do what comes next,” — Robert Morgan 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
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
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle. — Robert Morgan Belittle 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
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you… — Robert Morgan Accomplish 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
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the… — Robert Morgan Categorization Copy Share Image
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. — Robert Morgan Parent 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 Creative Copy Share Image
One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house… — Robert Morgan Change 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
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate,… — Robert Morgan Philosophy 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
“We mustn’t doubt in the darkness what God has showed us in the light.” — Robert Morgan Darkness Copy Share Image
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size,… — Robert Morgan Alchemy 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 love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words… — Robert Morgan Careful Copy Share Image
