Quotes by Robert Creeley
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At least I felt a responsibility for everything that was started. It must have been that New England sense that you've got to finish what you start.
I thought when younger that the burden of the song or the poem was the emotional condition that it made articulate or the feelings it thus gave voice to, or the this or that, whatever is-and I think all of that is part of its real fact, but paradoxically, I don't think that's what defines it.
When he's bored and he has simply an idea to carry it's awful, it's mawkish and sluggish-he's drunk, you know, you can tell.
I've been reading a terrific writer, just not read enough, a poet, David Rattray. He's got a terrific collection of essays, classic essays of preoccupations and musing and information and experience, called How I Became One of the Invisible.
What's curious, you get the tone that makes you recognize that Michael Ondaatje is part of a culture, not simply a singular writer; he's part of a whole way of seeing reality.
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 a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did.
Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.
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 to get up and do something, with such heroic competencies would be great.
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