Robert Morgan Quotes

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.