Robert Morgan Quotes

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

I like poems that are complex.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

I never had much education in English poetry as such.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

I love to write poetry.

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud.

With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.

I love an imperfect rhyme.

I fell in love with rhyming when I turned 13. I was in junior high. I got into it, but I wasn't serious. It was just for fun.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.