"First you wonder if they're separate stories, but……" — Robert Creeley
"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 the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns."
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Robert Creeley
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30 Quotes by Robert Creeley
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There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking…
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Form is never more than an extension of content.
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The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was…
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What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really…
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Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it,…
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Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.
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The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.
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O love, where are you leading me now?
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No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence,…
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Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this,…
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I did however used to think, you know, in the woods walking, and as a kid playing the the woods,…
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Hopefully, I write what I don't know.
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