Robert Morgan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.”

“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 break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.”

“A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.”

“I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.”

“Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.”

“One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.”

“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.”