{"author":"Robert Morgan","author_id":"Robert+Morgan","total_quotes":28,"quotes":[{"text":"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.","author":"Robert Morgan","tags":["art","think","see "],"id":5275,"author_id":"Robert+Morgan"},{"text":"The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.","author":"Robert Morgan","tags":["decision","reading","almost "],"id":21919,"author_id":"Robert+Morgan"},{"text":"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.","author":"Robert Morgan","tags":["honesty","sense of humor "],"id":24672,"author_id":"Robert+Morgan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Robert Morgan","tags":["impossible","see","recognize "],"id":49164,"author_id":"Robert+Morgan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Robert Morgan","tags":["writing","language","me "],"id":62007,"author_id":"Robert+Morgan"},{"text":"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.","author":"Robert Morgan","tags":["think","kind","person "],"id":65243,"author_id":"Robert+Morgan"},{"text":"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... Discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.","author":"Robert Morgan","tags":["language","you","create "],"id":92261,"author_id":"Robert+Morgan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Robert Morgan","tags":["mathematics","through "],"id":120796,"author_id":"Robert+Morgan"},{"text":"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.","author":"Robert Morgan","tags":["love","language","ity "],"id":121798,"author_id":"Robert+Morgan"},{"text":"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.","author":"Robert Morgan","tags":["the most important","little "],"id":124850,"author_id":"Robert+Morgan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}