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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/my-wife-and-i-lived-all-alone-contention-was-our-only-bone-i-fought/)

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

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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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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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