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 1 Share Now -
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. - Robert Morgan 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. - Robert Morgan 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. - Robert Morgan 10 Share Now -
