Down Quote by Robert Morgan

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

— Robert Morgan

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

— Robert Morgan

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

— Robert Morgan

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally…

— Robert Morgan

What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever,…

— Robert Morgan

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

— Robert Morgan

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of…

— Robert Morgan

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

— Robert Morgan

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in…

— Robert Morgan

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

— Robert Morgan

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

— Robert Morgan

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those…

— Robert Morgan