Robert Lowell Quotes - Page 2

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• What can the dove of Jesus give
  You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live,
  The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.

  Robert Lowell

  Wisdom, Jesus, Giving

  Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: A Tribute”

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• I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn.

  Robert Lowell

  Swimming, August, Air

  'Mr Edwards and the Spider' (1950)

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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.

  Robert Lowell

  Apples, Water, Dawn

  Robert Lowell (1955). “Poesie: 1943-1952”

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• Life begins to happen.
  My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes,
  and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes

  Robert Lowell

  Marriage, Husband, Home

  Robert Lowell (1972). “Selected Poems”

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• Wallowing in this bloody sty,
  I cast for fish that pleased my eye

  Robert Lowell

  Eye, Fishing, Wallowing

  Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

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• The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.

  Robert Lowell

  Rainbow, Lord

  Poems 1938-1949 (1950) "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket"

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• Once fishing was a rabbit's foot--
  O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot

  Robert Lowell

  Blow, Wind, Fishing

  Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

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• 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.

  Robert Lowell

  Powerful, Book, Years

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• the scythers, Time and Death,
  Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath

  Robert Lowell

  Death, Time, Moving

  Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

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• 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 walks.

  Robert Lowell

  Men, Fishing, Water

  Robert Lowell (1966). “The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction”

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• And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.

  Robert Lowell

  Blue, Lungs

  Robert Lowell (1966). “The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction”

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