Your old-fashioned tirade—
loving, rapid, merciless—
breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head.
Quotes from Life Studies — Robert Lowell
1917–1977 United States
15 quotes
Now Paris, our black classic, breaking up
like killer kings on an Etruscan cup.
Life Studies (1959)
Gored by the climacteric of his want,
he stalls above me like an elephant.
Life Studies (1959)
Life Studies (1959)
Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed.
Life Studies (1959)
Who asks for me, the Shelley of my age,
must lay his heart out for my bed and board.
Life Studies (1959)
You said:
"We poets in our youth begin in sadness;
thereof in the end come despondency and madness."
Life Studies (1959)
Oh my Petite,
clearest of all God's creatures, still all air and nerve.
Life Studies (1959)
Life Studies (1959)
We are old-timers,
each of us holds a locked razor.
Life Studies (1959)
Life Studies (1959)
I keep no rank nor station.
Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small.
Life Studies (1959)
Life Studies (1959)
I doodle handlebar
moustaches on the last Russian Czar
Life Studies (1959)
Life Studies (1959)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Lowell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.