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I am tired. Everyone's tired of my turmoil.
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Rome, if built at all, must be built in a day.
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No one like one's mother and father ever lived.
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We are old-timers,
each of us holds a locked razor.
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I doodle handlebar
moustaches on the last Russian Czar.
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I saw the sky descending, black and white,
Not blue, on Boston.
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I keep no rank nor station.
Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small.
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Wallowing in this bloody sty,
I cast for fish that pleased my eye
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This is death.
To die and know it. This is the Black Widow, death.
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On Boylston Street, a commercial photograph shows Hiroshima boiling.
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We are like a lot of wild spiders crying together, but without tears.
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Oh my Petite,
clearest of all God's creatures, still all air and nerve.
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Gored by the climacteric of his want, he stalls above me like an elephant.
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The scythers, Time and Death,
Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath
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Now Paris, our black classic, breaking up like killer kings on an Etruscan cup.
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Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,
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This pioneer democracy, built on foundations, not of rock, but blood hard as rock.
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After loving you so much, can I forget you for eternity, and have no other choice?
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Who asks for me, the Shelley of my age, must lay his heart out for my bed and board.
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It has taken me the time since you died
to discover you are as human as I am...
if I am.
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We are poor passing facts,
warned by that to give
each figure in the photograph
his living name.
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At forty-five,
What next, what next?
At every corner,
I meet my Father,
my age, still alive.
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Folly comes from something –
the present, yes,
we are in it,
it's the infection
of things gone.
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When I crouch to my television set, the drained faces of Negro school-children rise like balloons.
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You said:
"We poets in our youth begin in sadness; thereof in the end come despondency and madness."
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Robert Lowell
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Born:
March 1, 1917
Died:
September 12, 1977
(aged 60)
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