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Let's also throw into the hopper Creeley's "form is nothing but the
extension of content," which I've always taken to mean that one discovers
form in the act of writing. [MW]
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That would make it roughly equivalent to Varese's 'Form is the result of
process' and/or van Gogh's 'I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order
to learn how to do it'.
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His complete remark was, "Form is never more than an extension of content,
and content never more than an extension of form." [AF]
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Yes. And I've always assumed it to be a knock at the container metaphor for
how one writes. (Varese's remarks continue, 'I have tried never to make my
pieces fit into a known container'; a sentence I regret.)
CW
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