Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.
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
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will. - Robert Lowell
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.
Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. - Robert Lowell
Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.
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 will catch Christ with a greased worm, And when the Prince of Darkness stalks My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . . On water the Man-Fisher walk… - Robert Lowell
I will catch Christ with a greased worm, And when the Prince of Darkness stalks My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . . On water the Man-Fisher walk…
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.
In the end, there is no end. - Robert Lowell
In the end, there is no end.
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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