Robert Morgan Quotes

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

I like poems that are little games.

I like poems that are complex.

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.

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.

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

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.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

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.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.

Lyricists play with words.

'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

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

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.