Robert Creeley Quotes

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• Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds…
• He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be able…
• That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
• All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.
• And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but…
• First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of…
• It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present…
• It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move…
• The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great…
• You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into…

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