Top 15 Bob Hicok Quotes
#1. I like the idea of different
theres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass,
a Bronx where people talk
like violets smell. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehow
kind, perhaps in the nook
of a cousin universe I've never defiled or betrayed
anyone.
Bob Hicok
#2. I love how intimate I've become with failure.
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#3. Then I felt up silence. Then silence and I went all the way.
Bob Hicok
#6. You might think and be so marvelously right about praise that you open your door one day and the day walks in and stays for years.
Bob Hicok
#7. The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.
Bob Hicok
#8. Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off.
Bob Hicok
#9. I can't prove this but i can't prove
you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.
Bob Hicok
#10. Making it in poetry
The young teller
at the credit union
asked why so many
small checks
from universities?
Because I write
poems I said. Why
haven't I heard
of you? Because
I write poems
I said.
Bob Hicok
#11. When I say my name
I hear a burned-down church.
Bob Hicok
#12. My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.
Bob Hicok
#13. I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift of memory, the praise of everything, of saying it was the best decision of my life, to hold you full, hold you empty, & live as the only bond between the two.
Bob Hicok
#14. My life the only thing that has been with me my whole life
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#15. 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.
Bob Hicok
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