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I—
really I can do little,
as little now as then,
about the infernal fires—
I cannot blow out a match.

— Robert Lowell Day by Day (1977)

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If we see light at the end of the tunnel,
It's the light of the oncoming train.

Day by Day (1977)

We are like a lot of wild
spiders crying together,
but without tears.

For the Union Dead (1964)

No one like one's mother and father ever lived.

History (1973)

I will catch Christ with a greased worm.

Lord Weary's Castle (1946)

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

Life Studies (1959)

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