"Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mindâ€™s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed â€¦ Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word."

-- Forrest Gander

#Reading Quotes #Character Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it”
“I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.”
“I just need to come to the park every day thinking something good is going to happen to me and hoping today is going to be the day.”
“Because thatâ€™s what unfaithfulness is, isnâ€™t it? A cancer thatâ€™s always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. Itâ€™s happened once, it could happen again, so youâ€™re always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that itâ€™s reappeared...”
“The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.”
“I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.”
“And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.”
“I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.”

Source : Kris Radish (2006). “Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral”, p.235, Bantam

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