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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/and-what-s-fascinating-in-the-ten-thousand-things-is-that-although/)

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## More by Robert Creeley

> [I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/i-will-go-to-the-garden-i-will-be-a-romantic-i-will-sell-myself-in/)

[Robert Creeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-creeley/)

> [God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/god-give-you-pardon-from-gratitude-and-other-mild-forms-of-servitude/)

[Robert Creeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-creeley/)

> [The Lady has always moved to the next town and you stumble on after Her.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/the-lady-has-always-moved-to-the-next-town-and-you-stumble-on-after/)

[Robert Creeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-creeley/)

> [Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable never to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/moon-moon-when-you-leave-me-alone-all-the-darkness-is-an-utter/)

[Robert Creeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-creeley/)

> [All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/all-of-which-was-ok-as-that-proved-then-i-certainly-wouldn-t/)

[Robert Creeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-creeley/)

> [My love's manners in bed are not to be discussed by me](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/my-love-s-manners-in-bed-are-not-to-be-discussed-by-me/)

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> [That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/that-poetry-survived-in-its-formal-agencies-finally-and-that-prose/)

[Robert Creeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-creeley/)

> [He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/he-lives-out-in-orchard-park-i-mean-to-be-able-to-sit-on-the-bench-so/)

[Robert Creeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-creeley/)

> [“Thought is a process of work, joy is an issue of work”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/thought-is-a-process-of-work-joy-is-an-issue-of-work/)

[Robert Creeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-creeley/)

> [Comes the time when it's later and onto your table the headwaiter puts the bill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/comes-the-time-when-it-s-later-and-onto-your-table-the-headwaiter/)

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> [It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/it-s-the-classic-story-form-all-staying-equal-or-proving-equal-or/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/it-is-hard-going-to-the-door-cut-so-small-in-the-wall-where-the/)

[Robert Creeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-creeley/)

> [For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/for-love-i-would-split-open-your-head-and-put-a-candle-in-behind-the/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/the-awful-thing-as-a-kid-reading-was-that-you-came-to-the-end-of-the/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/i-don-t-think-any-man-writing-can-worry-about-what-the-act-of-writing/)

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