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

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

Robert Creeley
Gratitude, Giving, Form
Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.186, Univ of California Press

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
Love You, Moon, Hands
Robert Creeley, Benjamin Friedlander (2008). “Selected Poems, 1945-2005”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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
Reading, Writing, Imagination

My love's manners in bed are not to be discussed by me

Robert Creeley
Bed, Privacy, Manners
Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.168, Univ of California Press

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
Lying, Rain, Lust
Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.207, Univ of California Press

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
Thoughtful, Thinking, Intimate

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