"September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked……" — Robert Lowell
"September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn."
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20 Quotes by Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell has 20 quotes on this site.
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Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.
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The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.
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Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.
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Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,
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I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning…
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I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is…
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If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
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I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when…
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I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.
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In the end, there is no end.
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Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small…
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We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.
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More Apples Quotes
This quote is filed under Apples Quotes,
one of 816 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
— Bernard Baruch
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done…
— Bjork
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I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another…
— Lewis Black
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I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have…
— Mary J. Blige
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In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million.…
— Nolan Bushnell
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Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole…
— Johnny Cash
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
— Paul Cezanne
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Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
— Frank A. Clark
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Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
— Richard Hamming
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It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.
— Red Barber
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