Hopefully, I write what I don't know. Robert Creeley More Quotes by Robert Creeley More Quotes From Robert Creeley It is hard going to the door Robert Creeley walllonelinessflower My nature is a quagmire Robert Creeley quagmireconfession 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 lustrainlying Comes the time when it's later Robert Creeley restaurantsbillstables My love's manners in bed Robert Creeley privacybedmanners The Lady has always moved to the next town Robert Creeley longingnexttowns 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 readingimaginationwriting 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 moonlove-youhands 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 thoughtfulintimatethinking I did however used to think, you know, in the woods walking, and as a kid playing in the woods, that there was a kind of immanence there — that woods, and 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 orderkidsthinking Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him. Robert Creeley wordsyoumanmind All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things. Robert Creeley necessarysenseokthings And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it. Robert Creeley placeexperiencethreetime Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority. Robert Creeley they-saynamesayyou First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns. Robert Creeley placeyouwonderbook He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be able to get up and do something, with such heroic competencies would be great. Robert Creeley sitwhateversomethinggreat It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case. Robert Creeley memorydadfamilytime 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 move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on. Robert Creeley riverfriendstorytime That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. Robert Creeley somethinggetpoetrysaid The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door. Robert Creeley feelinggreatthinkway
