"That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said." ― Robert Creeley Topic(s): Poetry More From 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." "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!" More In Poetry "We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."― William Butler Yeats "When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic."― Lance Burton "Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."― Johann Georg Hamann