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

- Robert Creeley

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

- Robert Creeley

Form is never more than an extension of content.

- Robert Creeley

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 a…

- Robert Creeley

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

- Robert Creeley

The Lady has always moved to the next town and you stumble on after Her.

- Robert Creeley

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

- Robert Creeley

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 h…

- Robert Creeley

I heard words and words full of holes aching.

- Robert Creeley