You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

Quote by Robert Morgan

Topics: Robert Morgan Quotes

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only...

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only...

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have...

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have...

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so...

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so...

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers,...

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers,...

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away...

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away...

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that...

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that...

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin....

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin....

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers...

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers...

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

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

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them...

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them...

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a...

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a...

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

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

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject....

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject....

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from...

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from...

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special...

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special...

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people...

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people...

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so...

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so...

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a...

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a...

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

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

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a...

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a...