Quotes by Robert Morgan

“if money were not an issue.”

“We made some tough decisions and now we need to stick to them and hope for better times. We can?t let emotions get in the way of decisions.”

“I was shocked from the question,”

“We would like to put peoples minds at ease as to whether the petroleum business is responding to circumstances that are beyond its control, or if there is an element of greed in the recent price increases,”

“I have no idea. I dont know,”

“Jim, you told me years ago you had sexual feelings for them,”

“When we examined budget issues last year, we realized if we kept going the way we were going, we would have to increase taxes 28 percent over four years and we had to look at ways to compromise.”

“We felt like we had to buy some time. I sure am glad Im not playing this week. The course is ready, its in good shape. Its just the whole mental attitude of people. We are just so inundated. Everybody is tired and overworked. I just dont think, psychologically, the people in this area are ready to support a golf tournament. And buying the extra 30 days is going to make all the difference in the world.”

“To cancel would be worse PR than playing it,”

“I dont,”

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

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

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

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

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. Its delightful to distort size, to see something thats tiny as though it were vast.

Pounds translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

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

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

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.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. Its one of the great things poetry does.