Creeley Poems Quotes & Sayings

So it must seem. Good to evil seems evil. — Ray Bradbury

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy. — John Charles Polanyi

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character. — Robert Morgan

The world is full of men and women who work too much, sleep too little, hardly ever exercise, eat poorly, and are always struggling or failing to find adequate time with their families. We are in a perpetual hurry-constantly rushing from one activity to another, with little understanding of where all this activity is leading us ... The world has gone and got itself in an awful rush, to whose benefit I do not know. We are too busy for our own good. We need to slow down. Our lifestyles are destroying us. The worst part is, we are rushing east in search of a sunset. — Matthew Kelly

Television is intensely personal. — Jessica Savitch

Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind's concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed ... Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word. — Forrest Gander

The Internet took off in English and although there are now fifteen hundred languages on the Internet, seventy percent of it is still in English. — Melvyn Bragg

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am. — Olympia Dukakis

I love what I do and I love being part of the storytelling process. And I love the technological advancements. It was the thing that kept me going on every 20-hour day, 7 days a week. You have to love it to do that. — Christine Bieselin Clark

I am too nervous to eat pie. — Raymond Carver

I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite. — Joel Edgerton

There's more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look. — Dennis Rodman

I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words. — Henry Rollins

I got an email from my ex, telling me that she has AIDS. I didn't know how to comfort her, so I just wrote back I know. — Anthony Jeselnik

If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions. — Ben Brantley