Robert Creeley Quotes

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• There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose…
• Form is never more than an extension of content.
• 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…
• What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'
• 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.…
• Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.
• The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.
• O love, where are you leading me now?
• No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.
• Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people…
• I did however used to think, you know, in the woods walking, and as a kid playing the the woods, that there was a kind…
• Hopefully, I write what I don't know.
• 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…
• Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.
• God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.
• 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…
• Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust…
• Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable never to touch.…
• 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.…
• What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

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