top of page
"I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Love quotes

"Love deep is inexhaustible like a vast ocean."

"Love without reason-bloom without season."
Explore more quotes by Robert Morgan

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

"The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end."

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

"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast."

"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."

"The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character."
bottom of page