"Writing is the same as music. It’s in……" — Robert Creeley
"Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say."
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Robert Creeley
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30 Quotes by Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley has 30 quotes on this site.
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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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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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I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times…
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