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 More Quotes by Robert Creeley More Quotes From Robert Creeley My nature is a quagmire Robert Creeley quagmire confession 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 lust rain lying Comes the time when it's later Robert Creeley restaurants bills tables My love's manners in bed Robert Creeley privacy bed manners The Lady has always moved to the next town Robert Creeley longing next towns 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 imagination writing 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 moon love-you hands 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 intimate thinking Hopefully, I write what I don't know. Robert Creeley hopefully knows writing 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 order kids thinking 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 words you man mind All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things. Robert Creeley necessary sense ok things 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 place experience three time Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority. Robert Creeley they-say name say you 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 place you wonder book 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 sit whatever something great 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 memory dad family time 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 river friend story time That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. Robert Creeley something get poetry said 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 feeling great think way
