(1926-2005 / United States)

poet Robert Creeley
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Quotations

  • ''Comes the time when it's later
    and onto your table the headwaiter
    puts the bill,''
    Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. A Wicker Basket (l. 1-3). . . The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
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  • ''There are very huge stars, man, in the sky,''
    Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. A Wicker Basket (l. 21). . . The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
    7 person liked.
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  • ''Oh lovely lady, morning or evening or afternoon.
    Oh lovely lady, eating with or without a spoon.
    Oh most lovely lady, whether dressed or undressed or partly.
    Oh most lovely lady, getting up or going to bed or sitting only.''
    Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (l. 40-43). . . The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
    4 person liked.
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  • ''And I will wear what dresses I choose!
    And I will dance, and what's to lose!
    I'm free of you, you little prick,
    and I'm the one can make it stick.''
    Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (l. 29-32). . . The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
    4 person liked.
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  • ''Oh come home soon, I write to her.
    Go screw yourself, is her answer.
    Now what is that, for Christian word?
    I hope she feeds on dried goose turd.''
    Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (l. 9-12). . . The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
    2 person liked.
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  • ''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.''
    Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (l. 1-4). . . The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
    1 person liked.
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  • ''Dead. Died. Will die. Want.
    Morning, midnight. I asked you

    if you were going to get a pet
    what kind of animal would you get.''
    Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. If You (l. 13-16). . . The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
    1 person liked.
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  • ''shall we &
    why not, buy a goddamn big car,

    drive, he sd, for
    christ's sake, look
    out where yr going.''
    Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. I Know a Man (l. 8-12). . . The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
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  • ''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 (b. 1926), U.S. poet. The Door (l. 77-80). . . The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
    1 person liked.
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  • ''Mighty magic is a mother,
    in her there is another issue
    of fixture, repeated form, the race renewal,
    the charge of the command.''
    Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. The Door (l. 25-28). . . The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
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Sleeping birds, lead me,
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