Robert Morgan Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

  Robert Morgan

  Philosophical, Language, Preoccupation

• I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

  Robert Morgan

  Discovery, Long, Interesting

• In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

  Robert Morgan

  Fiction, Language, Invisible

• In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

  Robert Morgan

  Book, Home, Use

• 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

  Writing, Language, Kind

• 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.

  Robert Morgan

  Facts, Language, Ancient

• Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

  Robert Morgan

  Attention, Definitions, Language

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