Robert Morgan Quotes

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

I've written poetry most of my life.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

It's not easy to define poetry.

I'd kill to be a poet.

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

I like to write poetry.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.