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 MorganI seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
Robert MorganI tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.
Robert MorganPound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
Robert Morgan