Facts about Robert Creeley

Occup.Poet
FromUSA
BornMay 21, 1926
DiedMarch 30, 2005
Aged78 years

Summary

Robert Creeley was a famous Poet from USA, who lived between May 21, 1926 and March 30, 2005. He/she became 78 years old.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable. Our collection contains 15 quotes who is written / told by Robert.

Related authors: John Chamberlain (Artist)

15 Famous quotes by Robert Creeley

Small: The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to
"The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to"
Small: First you wonder if theyre separate stories, but no, theyre not, theyre contingent stories and they for
"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"
Small: Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about
"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!"
Small: The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it.
"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"
Small: Its as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum.
"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"
Small: And whats fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although theres time, an inexorable time of th
"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"
Small: There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking
"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"
Small: Dont name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority
"Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority"
Small: Its the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue
"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"
Small: He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, a
"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"
Small: Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he
"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"
Small: You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williamss thinking was
"You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did"
Small: That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said
"That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said"
Small: All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldnt contradict it as a necessary sense of thi
"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things"
Small: The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but theres no company whatsoever in
"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"