Robert Morgan Quotes

As writers we need to crack open language.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

I make up many words but we can go on for forever about slang words that E-40 created. That has always been one of my things since was youngster. I have always being creative with my words.

Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?

As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

All the fun is in how you say a thing.

Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.

I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!

After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.

Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchymy; and the present age, however desirous of riches, is content to seek them by the humbler means of commerce and industry.

Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.

Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.

The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.

So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.