Robert Morgan Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.”

“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.”

“Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.”

“Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.”

“The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.”

“In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.”

“The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.”

“It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.”

“I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.”