Quotes from Robert Lowell

The black hardrubber bathtub stopper at the Parker house.

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

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

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

What we love we are.

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

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

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

Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

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

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.