"Talking about the past is like a cat's……" — Robert Lowell
"Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,"
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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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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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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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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 Cat Quotes
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat,…
— Michele Bachmann
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Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call…
— Antonio Banderas
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If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats…
— Antonio Banderas
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a…
— Charles Baudelaire
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There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes…
— Scott Adams
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I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs…
— Kristen Bell
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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
— Ray Bradbury
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I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs,…
— Elayne Boosler
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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
— Anthony Bourdain
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I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I…
— Anthony Bourdain
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