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1. "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
2. "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
3. "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
4. "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
5. "All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things." ~ Robert Creeley
6. "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
7. "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
8. "Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority." ~ Robert Creeley
9. "That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said." ~ Robert Creeley
10. "The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to." ~ Robert Creeley
11. "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
12. "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
13. "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
14. "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
15. "Love, if you love me,lie next to me.Be for me, like rain,the getting outof the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi-lust of intentional indifference.Be wetwith a decent happiness." ~ Robert Creeley
16. "Moon, moon,when you leave me aloneall the darkness isan utter blackness,a pit of fear,a stench,hands unreasonablenever to touch.But I love you.Do you love me.What to saywhen you see me." ~ Robert Creeley
17. "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
18. "Thought is a process of work,joy is an issue of work" ~ Robert Creeley
19. "When I speak, I speaks." ~ Robert Creeley
20. "What am I to myselfthat must be remembered,insisted uponso often? Is itthat never the ease,even the hardness,of rain fallingwill have for mesomething other than this,something not so insistent—am I to be locked in thisfinal uneasiness." ~ Robert Creeley
21. "MemoriesHello, duck,in yellowcloth stuffed frominside out,littlepillow." ~ Robert Creeley
22. "Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes on the job—because all that one does in America is considered a "job"—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

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