Robert Morgan may refer to:
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. Use this quote
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. Use this quote
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. Use this quote
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. Use this quote
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back. Use this quote
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. Use this quote
