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

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

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"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!"

Imagination

"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."

Family

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

Narrative

"The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it."

Reading

"And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it."

Experience

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

Sense

"Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him."

Creativity

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

Authority

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Being

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Behavior