Robert Lowell Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• History has to live with what was here,
  clutching and close to fumbling all we had -
  it is so dull and gruesome how we die,
  unlike writing, life never finishes.

  Robert Lowell

  Writing, Dull, Dies

  Robert Lowell (2017). “New Selected Poems”, p.145, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come from some deep impulse, deep inspiration. That can't be taught, it can't be what you use in teaching.

  Robert Lowell

  Teaching, Inspiration, Writing

  Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers (1988). “Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

• But sometimes everything I write
  with the threadbare art of my eye
  seems a snapshot

  Robert Lowell

  Art, Eye, Writing

  Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: a tribute”

• Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.

  Robert Lowell

  Writing, Mean, Purpose

  Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”

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