Daily Inspiration Quote by Robert Morgan

Distortion sounds like a trick until you hear it the way a soldier might: as the most honest way to report time. Robert Morgan’s line frames poetry less as decoration than as a tactical device, a way to bend scale so experience can be felt in proportion. War, training, waiting, loss, boredom, adrenaline - these don’t arrive in neat, clock-sized units. A minute can swell into a private eternity; a decade can vanish in the snap of an order. Calling distortion “powerful” isn’t an aesthetic claim so much as a testimony about perception under pressure.

The intent is almost pedagogical: he’s naming a craft move (elastic time) and insisting it’s not optional. Poetry, in this view, earns its keep by refusing the literal timeline. The subtext is that straight realism can be a lie when it flattens lived intensity. If language marches at the pace of a watch, it can’t capture what trauma does to memory, or what love does to anticipation, or what survival does to attention.

Morgan also quietly widens the battlefield. His examples leap from “a minute” to “a century” to “a lifetime,” suggesting that the same distortion that helps a writer depict a firefight can also render aging, inheritance, national history - the long aftershocks. It’s a compact defense of poetic license as moral accuracy: bending time not to escape reality, but to get closer to how it actually lands.