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 same values, some of the same techniques. -Robert Morgan Famous
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. -Robert Morgan Poetry
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. -Robert Morgan Age
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 same values, some of the same techniques. -Robert Morgan Poetry
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. -Robert Morgan Poetry
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. -Robert Morgan Poetry
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. -Robert Morgan Poetry
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. -Robert Morgan Poetry
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry. -Robert Morgan Poetry
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. -Robert Morgan Poetry
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. -Robert Morgan Poetry
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. -Robert Morgan Humor
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. -Robert Morgan Poetry
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. -Robert Morgan Poetry
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. -Robert Morgan Poetry
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. -Robert Morgan Poetry
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. -Robert Morgan Poetry
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. -Robert Morgan Poetry
