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Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley

American Poet

Born: May 21, 1926

Died: Mar 30, 2005

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The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. Robert Creeley

Never Narrative End Wants Pattern Necessity

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things. Robert Creeley

Sense OK Proved Contradict Which Then Certainly Things Necessary

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority. Robert Creeley

You Say Instantly Name Because Offer Authority They Say Peculiar

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. Robert Creeley

You Book First Heroine Some Returns Island Contingent Wonder Begin Form Stories Place Which Pattern Separate

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 authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case. Robert Creeley

Time Family Memory Else Though One Time Case Rather Terms Were His Than Authority Just Dad Mum Resident 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 on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on. Robert Creeley

Time Will Move On Harry John See Classic Staying River He Equal Around Continue His Friend Proving Move Being Form After Happened Story Really Next Next Time Dove Who

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal! Robert Creeley

People Writing Reading Imagination Other Else About Brutal Am Editorial May Newspaper Who Who Am I Whole Suddenly

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. Robert Creeley

Finally Something Poetry Prose Said Survived Get Formal Agencies

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement. Robert Creeley

Sense Nothing Thinking Intimate Statement Thoughtful Responsible Perceptive Prose Like Lot Very Just Being Anything Quote

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