Robert Lowell Quotes

21 quotes in 271 categories

• Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.
• The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.
• Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.
• Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,
• I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come from…
• I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is coming on me it is…
• September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.
• If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
• I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to…
• I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.
• In the end, there is no end.
• Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel of…
• We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.
• I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to…
• And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.
• In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.
• The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.
• In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.
• This is death To die and know it. This is the Black Widow, death.
• Other things being equal its better to get your emotions out in a Macbeth than in a confession.

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