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Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley
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Robert Creeley

Born: 21 May 1926 • Died: 30 March 2005

Robert Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1926. He attended Harvard University from 1943 to 1946. In 1946, he published his first poem, in the Harvard magazine Wake. Creeley published more than sixty books of poetry including If I Were Writing This (2003); Just in Time: Poems 1984–1994 (2001); Life & Death (1998); Echoes (1994); Selected Poems 1945–1990 (1991); Memory Gardens (1986); Mirrors (1983); The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945–1975 (1982); Later (New Directions, 1979); The Finger (1968); and For Love: Poems 1950–1960 (1962). Creeley died on March 30, 2005, in Odessa, Texas. (Source)

Poems by Robert Creeley

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I Know A Man by Robert Creeley

September 5, 2025
“drive, he sd, for / christ’s sake, look / out where yr going.” — Robert Creeley
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Love Comes Quietly by Robert Creeley

July 3, 2024
“What did I know / thinking myself / able to go / alone all the way.” — Robert Creeley
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Place to Be by Robert Creeley

April 26, 2016
"Nothing's wiser than a moment." — Robert Creeley
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Fire by Robert Creeley

May 5, 2012
"What is / a lonely heart for / if not / for itself alone." — Robert Creeley
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Morning by Robert Creeley

May 3, 2011
"head's a / waterfall." — Robert Creeley
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The Flower by Robert Creeley

April 26, 2010
"Each wound is perfect, / encloses itself in a tiny / imperceptible blossom, / making pain." — Robert Creeley
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The Rain by Robert Creeley

March 29, 2008
"Be for me, like rain, / the getting out" — Robert Creeley
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A Reason by Robert Creeley

November 4, 2005
"my sentimental / names for years / and years ago, from / something I’ve not become." — Robert Creeley