Robert Creeley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.
-- Robert Creeley

#Quagmire #Confession
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
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
The Lady has always moved to the next town and you stumble on after Her.
-- Robert Creeley

#Next #Towns #Longing
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
My love's manners in bed are not to be discussed by me
-- Robert Creeley

#Bed #Privacy #Manners
Comes the time when it's later and onto your table the headwaiter puts the bill
-- Robert Creeley

#Bills #Tables #Restaurants
Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes on the jobâ€”because all that one does in America is considered a "job"â€”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
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
O love, where are you leading me now?
-- Robert Creeley

#Leading Me
The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.
-- Robert Creeley

#Want #Narrative #Patterns
Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.
-- Robert Creeley

#Term
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 of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.
-- Robert Creeley

#Lying #Rain #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. But I love you. Do you love me. What to say when you see me.
-- Robert Creeley

#Love You #Moon #Hands
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
What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.
-- Robert Creeley

#Vision #World
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 as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.
-- Robert Creeley

#Thoughtful #Thinking #Responsible
Form is never more than an extension of content.
-- Robert Creeley

#Writing #Form
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
God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.
-- Robert Creeley

#Gratitude #Giving #Pardon
I heard words and words full of holes aching.
-- Robert Creeley

#Holes #Heard
Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.
-- Robert Creeley

#Communication #Feelings #Information
I donâ€™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
Hopefully, I write what I don't know.
-- Robert Creeley

#Writing #Hopefully
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 of immanence there - that woods, a 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
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
Writing is the same as music. Itâ€™s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you donâ€™t play is as important as what you do say.
-- Robert Creeley

#Writing #Play #Important
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 may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!
-- Robert Creeley

#Reading #Writing #Imagination

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