Robert Creeley Quotes

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• 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.

  Robert Creeley

  Reading, Mean, Kids

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• What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

  Robert Creeley

  Inspirational, Vision, World

  Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.364, Univ of California Press

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• Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

  Robert Creeley

  Writing, Play, Important

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• What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

  Robert Creeley

  Light, Great Things, Travel Light

  Robert Creeley (1972). “A sense of measure”, London, Calder and Boyars

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• I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.

  Robert Creeley

  Love, Home, Voice

  Robert Creeley (2006). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005”, p.495, Univ of California Press

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• Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

  Robert Creeley

  Communication, Feelings, Information

  Robert Creeley (1972). “A sense of measure”, London, Calder and Boyars

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• Form is never more than an extension of content.

  Robert Creeley

  Art, Writing, Design

  Charles Olson, Robert Creeley (1980). “Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence”, p.50, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I heard words
  and words full
  of holes
  aching.

  Robert Creeley

  Holes, Heard

  Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.283, Univ of California Press

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

  Robert Creeley

  Patterns, Want, Narrative

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• Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.

  Robert Creeley

  Term

  Robert Creeley (1972). “A sense of measure”, London, Calder and Boyars

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• O love, where are you leading me now?

  Robert Creeley

  Leading Me

  Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.206, Univ of California Press

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• I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.

  Robert Creeley

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Robert Creeley (1993). “Tales out of school: selected interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• I will go to the garden.
  I will be a romantic. I will sell
  myself in hell,
  in heaven also I will be.

  Robert Creeley

  Garden, Heaven, Hell

  Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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• My nature is a quagmire
  of unresolved confessions.

  Robert Creeley

  Quagmire, Confession

  Robert Creeley (1966). “Poems 1950-1965”

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• For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

  Robert Creeley

  Eye, Splits, Behinds

  Robert Creeley, Benjamin Friedlander (2008). “Selected Poems, 1945-2005”, p.60, Univ of California Press

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• Hopefully, I write what I don't know.

  Robert Creeley

  Writing, Hopefully, Knows

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• It is hard going to the door
  cut so small in the wall where
  the vision which echoes loneliness
  brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

  Robert Creeley

  Wall, Loneliness, Flower

  Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.199, Univ of California Press

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• My wife and I lived all alone,
  contention was our only bone.
  I fought with her, she fought with me,
  and things went on right merrily.
  But now I live here by myself
  with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
  and pass my days with little cheer
  since I have parted from my dear.

  Robert Creeley

  Marriage, Cheer, Wife

  Robert Creeley, Benjamin Friedlander (2008). “Selected Poems, 1945-2005”, p.67, Univ of California Press

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• Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes on the job—because all that one does in America is considered a "job"—with no clear sense as to what is required or where one will ultimately be led. In that respect, it is as particular an instance of a "calling" as one might point to. For years I've kept in mind, "Many are called but few are chosen." Even so "called," there were no assurances that one would be answered.

  Robert Creeley

  Country, Jobs, Years

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• I did however used to think, you know, in the woods walking, and as a kid playing in the woods, that there was a kind of immanence there — that woods, and places of that order, had a sense, a kind of presence, that you could feel; that there was something peculiarly, physically present, a feeling of place almost conscious ... like God. It evoked that.

  Robert Creeley

  Kids, Thinking, Order

  "Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place: Together with the Poet's Own Autobiography".

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• As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or
  may not have anything actively to do with my actual work as a
  poet. This strikes me as no thing cynically awry but rather
  seems again instance of that hapless or possibly happy fact,
  we do not as humans seem necessarily aware of what we are
  physically or psychically doing at all!

  Robert Creeley

  Thinking, Facts, May

  Robert Creeley (1979). “Was That a Real Poem & Other Essays”

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• Oh well, I will say here,
  knowing each man,
  let you find a good wife too,
  and love her as hard as you can.

  Robert Creeley

  Men, Knowing, Wife

  Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.168, Univ of California Press

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• No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.

  Robert Creeley

  Reality, Matter, Tone

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• Comes the time when it's later
  and onto your table the headwaiter
  puts the bill

  Robert Creeley

  Tables, Bills, Restaurants

  Robert Creeley, Benjamin Friedlander (2008). “Selected Poems, 1945-2005”, p.65, Univ of California Press

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• The Lady has always moved to the next town
  and you stumble on after Her.

  Robert Creeley

  Next, Towns, Longing

  Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.200, Univ of California Press

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