Robert Morgan

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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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. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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

— Robert Morgan

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In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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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. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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

— Robert Morgan

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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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