Bob Hicok Quotes

#1. In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger.

Neil Patrick Harris

#2. 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

#3. The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.

Barry Eisler

#4. My life the only thing that has been with me my whole life

Bob Hicok

#5. If beauty and love do not suit the times, then you have to be beautiful and to love to spite the times!

Mikhail Shishkin

#6. 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

#7. My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.

Bob Hicok

#8. When I say my name

I hear a burned-down church.

Bob Hicok

#9. 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

#10. I said I wouldn't push you, and I meant it. But one day, Chess, you're going to feel safe enough to let go. And I'm going to be there to catch you when you fall.

Kristen Callihan

#11. Have a robust mindset; dare to move any mountain!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.

Carl Andrew Spaatz

#13. 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

#14. Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off.

Bob Hicok

#15. The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.

Bob Hicok

#16. 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

#17. I think clapping is how mourn.

Bob Hicok

#18. Let us all be from somewhere.

Bob Hicok

#19. Then I felt up silence. Then silence and I went all the way.

Bob Hicok

#20. I love how intimate I've become with failure.

Bob Hicok

#21. 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

#22. Again, something that's very strange and odd, you will find sometimes that immigrants that have been here for many years and already have their citizenship might be the ones against additional immigration. We've seen that also.

Philippe Falardeau