“As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or may not have anything actively to do with my actual work as a poet. This strikes me as no thing cynically awry but rather seems again instance of that hapless or possibly happy fact, we do not as humans seem necessarily aware of what we are physically or psychically doing at all!” ThinkingHumansMayFactsSeemsPoetStrikesInstance Book:Was That a Real Poem & Other Essays Source: Was That a Real Poem & Other Essays
“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.” ThinkingResponsibleStatementsIntimateThoughtfulProseEditorials Author:Robert Creeley
“I did however used to think, you know, in the woods walking, and as a kid playing in the woods, that there was a kind of immanence there — that woods, and places of that order, had a sense, a kind of presence, that you could feel; that there was something peculiarly, physically present, a feeling of place almost conscious ... like God. It evoked that.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsKindFeelingsKidsUsedSpiritReligionOrderSpiritualityWalkingConsciousWoodsAweKids Playing Author:Robert Creeley
“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.” ThinkingMenWritingWorryCost Book:Tales out of school: selected interviews Source: Tales out of school: selected interviews
