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Top 20 Robert Creeley Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert Creeley Quote: “Form is never more than an extension of content.”

1. “Form is never more than an extension of content.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.”

2. “Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.”

3. “What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Robert Creeley Quote: “Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.”

5. “Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.”

7. “Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.”

8. “No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “Hopefully, I write what I don’t know.”

10. “Hopefully, I write what I don’t know.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “The plan is the body.”

11. “The plan is the body.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “For love – I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.”

13. “For love – I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.”

14. “God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “O love, where are you leading me now?”

15. “O love, where are you leading me now?”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really ‘travel light.’”

16. “What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really ‘travel light.’”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “When I speak, I speaks.”

17. “When I speak, I speaks.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Robert Creeley Quote: “The tree cannot walk, all its going must be violence. They listen to the saw cut, the roots scream. And in eating even a stalk of celery there will be pathetic screaming.”

19. “The tree cannot walk, all its going must be violence. They listen to the saw cut, the roots scream. And in eating even a stalk of celery there will be pathetic screaming.”

— Robert Creeley

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

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

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “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!”

21. “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

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Robert Creeley Quote: “Let’s build a house of human pieces, arms and hair, not telling any one.”

22. “Let’s build a house of human pieces, arms and hair, not telling any one.”

— Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Quote: “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.”

23. “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

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