Bob Hicok Quotes

• Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off.

  Bob Hicok

  Writing, Ass

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• I love how intimate I've become with failure.

  Bob Hicok

  Intimate

  Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.28, Copper Canyon Press

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• 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

  Fall, Air, Somewhere Else

  Bob Hicok (2007). “This clumsy living”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• Here, when I say I never want to be without you,
  somewhere else I am saying
  I never want to be without you again. And when I touch you
  in each of the places we meet,
  
  in all of the lives we are, it's with hands that are dying
  and resurrected.
  When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life,
  in each place and forever

  Bob Hicok

  Mistake, Hands, Somewhere Else

  Bob Hicok (1998). “Plus Shipping: Poems”, Boa Editions

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

  Bob Hicok

  Grieving, Machines, Ears

  Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.53, Copper Canyon Press

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

  Bob Hicok

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.2, Copper Canyon Press

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