Robert Creeley Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.”

“The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”