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Quote by Robert Lowell
I’m sure that writing isn’t a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out.
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The speaker rejects the idea that writing is a craft in the usual sense: a set of skills learned and then used to produce work repeatedly. The statement presents writing as something that cannot be reduced to a routine or a formula for turning out one piece after another.
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- The Paris Review, “The Art of Poetry No. 3” (1961)
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- Official Statement
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