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Bob Hicok Quotes

Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off.

Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off.

Writing, Ass

I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling, somewhere else it gets back up.

Fall, Air, Somewhere Else

Bob Hicok (2007). “This clumsy living”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

I love how intimate I've become with failure.

Intimate

Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.28, Copper Canyon Press

Here, when I say I never want to be without you, somewhere else I am saying I never want to be without you again. And when I touch you in each of the places we meet, in all of the lives we are, it's with hands that are dying and resurrected. When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life, in each place and forever

Mistake, Hands, Somewhere Else

Bob Hicok (1998). “Plus Shipping: Poems”, Boa Editions

The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.

Grieving, Machines, Ears

Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.53, Copper Canyon Press

My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.

Believe, Heart, Men

Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.2, Copper Canyon Press

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