Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley
Robert Creeleywas an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1991, he joined colleagues Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Raymond Federman, Robert Bertholf, and Dennis...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 May 1926
CountryUnited States of America
I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.
I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.
Hopefully, I write what I don't know.
Form is never more than an extension of content.
O love, where are you leading me now?
No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.
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!
Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.
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.
My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.
Comes the time when it's later and onto your table the headwaiter puts the bill
My love's manners in bed are not to be discussed by me
Oh well, I will say here, knowing each man, let you find a good wife too, and love her as hard as you can.
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.