Enjoyment Quote by Robert Morgan

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

— Robert Morgan

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the…

— Mark Strand

I think people in the north and the south and the east and the west, anywhere they come from, are just as interesting, and…

— Sissy Spacek

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

— Norman MacCaig

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

— Helen Vendler

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

— Diane Wakoski

I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can…

— Natasha Trethewey

Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge…

— Mary Alice Monroe

I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the…

— Sylvia Plath

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved…

— Peter Davison

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am…

— Joseph Brodsky

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to…

— Diane Wakoski