Robert Morgan Quotes

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

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

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop - not that what I do is poetry.

Write whatever you like!

Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Without literature my life would be miserable.

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.