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Robert Lowell quotes: If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.

If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.

Robert Lowell quotes: In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.

In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.

Robert Lowell quotes: The scythers, Time and Death,Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath

The scythers, Time and Death,
Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath

Robert Lowell quotes: Life begins to happen.My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes,and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes

Life begins to happen.
My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes,
and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes

Robert Lowell quotes: But sometimes everything I writewith the threadbare art of my eyeseems a snapshot

But sometimes everything I write
with the threadbare art of my eye
seems a snapshot

Robert Lowell quotes: Those blessed structures, plot and rhymewhy are they no help to me nowI want to makesomething imagined, not recalled?

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme
why are they no help to me now
I want to make
something imagined, not recalled?

Robert Lowell quotes: In the end, there is no end.

In the end, there is no end.

Robert Lowell quotes: Wallowing in this bloody sty,I cast for fish that pleased my eye

Wallowing in this bloody sty,
I cast for fish that pleased my eye

Robert Lowell quotes: If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

Robert Lowell quotes: Then morning comes,saying, "This was a night.

Then morning comes,
saying, "This was a night.

Robert Lowell quotes: What we love we are.

What we love we are.

Robert Lowell quotes: Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

Robert Lowell quotes: It is night,And it is vanity, and ageBlackens the heart of Adam. Fear,The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

It is night,
And it is vanity, and age
Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear,
The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

Robert Lowell quotes: One universe, one body ... in this urnthe animal night sweats of the spirit burn

One universe, one body ... in this urn
the animal night sweats of the spirit burn

Robert Lowell quotes: Once fishing was a rabbit's footO wind blow cold, O wind blow hot

Once fishing was a rabbit's foot
O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot

Robert Lowell quotes: I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

Robert Lowell quotes: F we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.

F we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.

Robert Lowell quotes: If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.

Robert Lowell quotes: Dearest I cannot loiter herein lather like a polar bear.

Dearest I cannot loiter here
in lather like a polar bear.

Robert Lowell quotes: It's the light of the oncoming train.

It's the light of the oncoming train.

Robert Lowell quotes: We are all old-timers,each of us holds a locked razor.

We are all old-timers,
each of us holds a locked razor.

Robert Lowell quotes: And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.

And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.

Robert Lowell quotes: Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,

Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,

Robert Lowell quotes: The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.

The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.

Robert Lowell quotes: Thisis the departure strip,the dream-road. Whoever built itleft numbers, words and arrows.He had to leave in a hurry.

This
is the departure strip,
the dream-road. Whoever built it
left numbers, words and arrows.
He had to leave in a hurry.

Robert Lowell quotes: The slick bare tar, the same suburban station.

The slick bare tar, the same suburban station.

Robert Lowell quotes: How fine our distinctions when we cannot choose

How fine our distinctions when we cannot choose

Robert Lowell quotes: Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

Robert Lowell quotes: It's not a visitation by angels, but a weakening in the blooda magical orange grove in a nightmare

It's not a visitation by angels, but a weakening in the blood
a magical orange grove in a nightmare

Robert Lowell quotes: September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

Robert Lowell quotes: The dead season when wolves live off the wind.

The dead season when wolves live off the wind.

Robert Lowell quotes: Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

Robert Lowell quotes: Tockytock, tockytockclumped our Alpine, Edwardian cuckoo clock,slung with strangled, wooden game.

Tockytock, tockytock
clumped our Alpine, Edwardian cuckoo clock,
slung with strangled, wooden game.

Robert Lowell quotes: The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.

The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.

Robert Lowell quotes: In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.

In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.

Robert Lowell quotes: The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

Robert Lowell quotes: The barberry berry sticks on the small hedge,cold slits the same crease in the finger,the same thorn hurts. The leaf repeats the lesson.

The barberry berry sticks on the small hedge,
cold slits the same crease in the finger,
the same thorn hurts. The leaf repeats the lesson.

Robert Lowell quotes: Some morbidity in me attracts mosquitoes

Some morbidity in me attracts mosquitoes

Robert Lowell quotes: Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

Robert Lowell quotes: I myself am hell;nobody's here

I myself am hell;
nobody's here

Robert Lowell quotes: We wished our two soulsmight return like gullsto the rock. In the end,the water was too cold for us.

We wished our two souls
might return like gulls
to the rock. In the end,
the water was too cold for us.

Robert Lowell quotes: The black hardrubber bathtub stopper at the Parker house.

The black hardrubber bathtub stopper at the Parker house.

Robert Lowell quotes: Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.