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Once fishing was a rabbit's foot—
O wind
blow
cold, O wind
blow
hot,
Let suns stay in or suns step out:
Life danced a jig on the sperm-whale's spout—
The fisher's fluent and obscene
Catches kept his conscience clean.
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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
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Robert Lowell
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Born:
March 1, 1917
Died:
September 12, 1977
(aged 60)
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