Garden Quote 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.”

Robert Creeley

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God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

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

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Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable never to…

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All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

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That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

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“Thought is a process of work, joy is an issue of work”

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

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

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