102 Quotes by Robert Morgan

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

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

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.

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

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.