Bob Hicok quotes
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“Furiously and gorgeously write your ***** off.”
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“The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.”
-- Bob HicokSource : Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.53, Copper Canyon Press
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“I love how intimate I've become with failure.”
-- Bob HicokSource : 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 HicokSource : Bob Hicok (2007). “This clumsy living”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
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“My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.”
-- Bob HicokSource : Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.2, Copper Canyon Press
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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 HicokSource : Bob Hicok (1998). “Plus Shipping: Poems”, Boa Editions
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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press
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“When I fart my ***** makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell.”
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“Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit!”
Source : "The Fall of the Roman Empire". Book by Rita J. Markel, January 10, 2007.
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“If you're not in the arena also getting your ***** kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback.”
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