Robert Morgan Quotes

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

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

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.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.