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If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Robert Lowell
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.
Robert Lowell
In the end, there is no end.
Robert Lowell
A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket-- The sea was still breaking violently and night Had steamed into our North Atlantic Fleet, When the drowned sailor clutched the drag-net. Light Flashed from his matted head and marble feet, He grappled at the net With the coiled, hurdling muscles of his thighs: The corpse was bloodless, a botch of reds and whites, Its open, staring eyes Were lustreless dead-lights Or cabin-windows on a stranded hulk Heavy with sand.
Robert Lowell
Once fishing was a rabbit's foot-- O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot, Let suns stay in or suns step out: Life danced a jig on the sperm-whale's spout-- The fisher's fluent and obscene Catches kept his conscience clean.
Robert Lowell
Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.
Robert Lowell
I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.
Robert Lowell
In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.
Robert Lowell
Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.
Robert Lowell
Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.
Robert Lowell