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Robert Lowell on Mother's Day

1917–1977 United States

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Your old-fashioned tirade—
loving, rapid, merciless—
breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head.

Life Studies (1959)

After loving you so much, can I forget
you for eternity, and have no other choice?

Notebook 1967–68 (1969)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Lowell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.