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Robert Lowell

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


— Robert Lowell


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


— Robert Lowell


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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


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The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.


— Robert Lowell


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In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.


— Robert Lowell


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If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.


— Robert Lowell


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If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.


— Robert Lowell


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About Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quotes




Did you know about Robert Lowell?

In a letter to Jarrell from 1957 Lowell wrote "I suppose we shouldn't swap too many compliments but I am heavily in your debt. Later the press would characterize their marriage as "restless and emotionally harrowing. Life


Family history
Lowell was born to Commander Robert Traill Spencer Lowell III and Charlotte (née Winslow) in Boston Massachusetts.

He won the Pulitzer Prize in both 1947 and 1974 the National Book Award in 1960 and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977. Robert "Cal" Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1 1917 – September 12 1977) was an American poet considered to be one of the founders of the confessional poetry movement.

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