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
In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the… — Robert Morgan Late Copy Share Image
“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 God trust 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 Essence Copy Share Image
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being… — Robert Morgan Art 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 20th century 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 Example 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 Fiction Copy Share Image
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest… — Robert Morgan Backgrounds 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 American poetry Copy Share Image
I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems… — Robert Morgan Down 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
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days… — Robert Morgan Best poetry 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 Excess 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
“According to UNICEF, if ninety school buses filled with preschoolers crashed every day with no survivors, the world would notice. Yet that’s… — Robert Morgan Every day 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 Appalachian Copy Share Image
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought… — Robert Morgan Book Copy Share Image
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the… — Robert Morgan Free verse Copy Share Image
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. — Robert Morgan American poetry Copy Share Image
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. — Robert Morgan Blank Copy Share Image
“The best way to develop an abiding awareness of God’s presence is to speak to Him often in prayer.” — Robert Morgan Prayer Copy Share Image
“We don’t know a tenth of what there is to know,” Mr. Pendergast said. “Why we don’t even know a sixth.” — robert morgan Sixth 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
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
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate,… — Robert Morgan Discovering 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… — Robert Morgan Age 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 Linguistic 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
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think… — Robert Morgan Culture Copy Share Image
