Curated Quotations

Robert Morgan

Quotations

  • “I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.” -Robert Morgan

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  • “Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.” -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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  • “Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.” -Robert Morgan

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  • “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.” -Robert Morgan

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  • The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. – Robert Morgan

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