Quotes About Robert Lowell

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

In it, he pushed the metric of typewriter spaces, and quoted from a poem, "The Catholic Bells," to show us Williams's "mature style at fifty"! This was a memorable phrase, and one that made maturity seem possible, but a long way off. I more or less memorized "The Catholic Bells," and spent months trying to console myself by detecting immaturities in whatever Williams had written before he was fifty.

The black hardrubber bathtub stopper at the Parker house.