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- That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. — Robert Creeley
- All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things. — Robert Creeley
- The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. — Robert Creeley
- The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it. — Robert Creeley
- Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him. — Robert Creeley
- It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case. — Robert Creeley