Robert Creeley Quotes

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

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 touch. But I love you. Do you love me. What to say when you see me.

Robert Creeley
What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

Robert Creeley
How can I die alone.
Where will I be then who am now alone, what groans so pathetically in this room where I am alone?

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

Robert Creeley
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.

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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 of it.

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

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 flowers in the wood.

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
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
Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.

Robert Creeley
As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or
may not have anything actively to do with my actual work as a
poet. This strikes me as no thing cynically awry but rather
seems again instance of that hapless or possibly happy fact,
we do not as humans seem necessarily aware of what we are
physically or psychically doing at all!

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

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

Robert Creeley
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
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