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I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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