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I wouldn’t be that mature, if I lived to ninety, and memorized Montaigne and had hallucinations that I was Santayana. —Lowell

— Jan 22, 2022 02:33PM

Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

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Lowell wrote the following upon the death of Roethke, poor guy, he had a bruised life, but he didn’t dry up—somehow quite clean and phosphorescent in his wallow.

— Jan 29, 2022 09:02AM

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Are we couth or uncouth?
Oh it is best to be both,
Both sides of the same coin,
Half man and half horse,
Poor creatures of rhyme,
Who want to rejoin
The human race
And life and time.

— Jan 28, 2022 10:23AM

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Easily my favorite book of those I’m presently reading.

— Jan 25, 2022 03:44AM

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The Revolution has come, I guess, yet we’re still creatures of flesh and blood.

— Jan 19, 2022 03:00AM

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Awful moment when you realize you must read twenty more pages to a slowly vanishing wall of disapproving old ladies.

— Jan 17, 2022 04:28PM

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I truly need this presently.