"We are all old-timers, each of us holds…" — Robert Lowell
"We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor."
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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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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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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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