I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. Robert Morgan Read Quote
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle. Robert Morgan Read Quote
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. Robert Morgan Read Quote
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it’s what gets you through. So it’s partly just curiosity to see what you can do. Robert Morgan Read Quote
I think that it’s more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. Robert Morgan Read Quote
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. Robert Morgan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Pound’s translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. Robert Morgan Read Quote
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It’s one of the great things poetry does. Robert Morgan Read Quote
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. Robert Morgan Read Quote