Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. — Robert Morgan Attention Copy Share Image
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. — Robert Morgan American poetry 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
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. — Robert Morgan Fiction Copy Share Image
Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. — Robert Morgan 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
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
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 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 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 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
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
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
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 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 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 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
“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
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
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
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. — Robert Morgan American poetry 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
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
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
“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 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
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. — Robert Morgan 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 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
