102 Quotes by Robert Morgan

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

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

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.

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.

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

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

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.