It's a completely powerful and serious book, as good as anything in prose or poetry written by a 'beat' writer, and one of the most alive books written by any American for years. I don't see how it could be considered immoral.
Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder. - Robert Lowell
Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.
- Robert Lowell
Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. - Robert Lowell
Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.
In the end, there is no end. - Robert Lowell
In the end, there is no end.
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will. - Robert Lowell
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.
Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone - Robert Lowell
Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon. - Robert Lowell
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm. - Robert Lowell
I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.
In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet. - Robert Lowell
In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.
The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason. - Robert Lowell
The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.
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