Dull Quote by Robert Lowell

“History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.” quote by Robert Lowell — Download Open image

“History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.”

Robert Lowell

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

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“The English departments were clogged with worthy but outworn and backwardlooking scholars whose tastes in the moderns were most often superficial, random, and vulgar. Students who. wanted to write got little practical help from their professors. They studied the classics as monsters that were slowly losing their fur and feathers and leaking a little sawdust. What one did oneself was…

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“Reading Myself" Like thousands I took just pride and more than just, struck matches that brought my blood to a boil; I memorized the tricks to set the river on fire-- somehow never wrote something to go back to. Can I suppose I am finished with wax flowers and have earned my grass on the minor slopes of Parnassus... No…

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“We are poor passing facts. warned by that to give each figure in the photograph his living name.”

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

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