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Robert Lowell Quotes - Page 2

All Quotes Poetry Writing

What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.

What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.

Wisdom, Jesus, Giving

Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: A Tribute”

I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn.

Swimming, August, Air

'Mr Edwards and the Spider' (1950)

September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

Apples, Water, Dawn

Robert Lowell (1955). “Poesie: 1943-1952”

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

Marriage, Husband, Home

Robert Lowell (1972). “Selected Poems”

Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye

Eye, Fishing, Wallowing

Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.

Rainbow, Lord

Poems 1938-1949 (1950) "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket"

Once fishing was a rabbit's foot-- O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot

Blow, Wind, Fishing

Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

It's a completely powerful and serious book, as good as anything in prose or poetry written by a 'beat' writer, and one of the most alive books written by any American for years. I don't see how it could be considered immoral.

Powerful, Book, Years

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

Death, Time, Moving

Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

I will catch Christ with a greased worm, And when the Prince of Darkness stalks My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . . On water the Man-Fisher walks.

Men, Fishing, Water

Robert Lowell (1966). “The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction”

And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.

Blue, Lungs

Robert Lowell (1966). “The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction”

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