Robert Lowell Quotes

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.

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The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

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We are all old-timers,
each of us holds a locked razor.

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

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