Creely's Quotes

#1. Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

John Simon

#2. He dreamed, as human beings always dream - random firings of memory and imagination that the unconscious mind tries to put together into coherent stories. Bean rarely paid attention to his own dreams, rarely even remembered that he dreamed at all. But

Orson Scott Card

#3. There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#4. He ... discovered that people's goodwill was frequently in inverse relationship to their position ...

Richard Flanagan

#5. He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

#6. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.

Thucydides

#7. [My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul

August Strindberg