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Top 25 Robert Lowell Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert Lowell Quote: “In the end, there is no end.”

1. “In the end, there is no end.”

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Robert Lowell Quote: “The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.”

2. “The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It’s the light of the oncoming train.”

3. “We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It’s the light of the oncoming train.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.”

4. “Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.”

5. “We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.”

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Robert Lowell Quote: “Yet why not say what happened?”

6. “Yet why not say what happened?”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.”

7. “Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.”

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Robert Lowell Quote: “Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.”

8. “Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.”

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

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city’s throat.”

10. “Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city’s throat.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.”

11. “The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel of small war – until the end of time to police the earth, a ghost orbiting forever lost in our monotonous sublime.”

12. “Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel of small war – until the end of time to police the earth, a ghost orbiting forever lost in our monotonous sublime.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.”

13. “I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.”

14. “If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “It’s the light of the oncoming train.”

15. “It’s the light of the oncoming train.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “What we love we are.”

17. “What we love we are.”

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Robert Lowell Quote: “In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.”

18. “In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.”

19. “Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.”

20. “The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “And blue-lung’d combers lumbered to the kill.”

21. “And blue-lung’d combers lumbered to the kill.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing – I suppose that’s what a vocation means – at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.”

22. “Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing – I suppose that’s what a vocation means – at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the ‘enthusiasm’ is coming on me it is accompanied by a feverish reaching out to my friends. After its over I wince and wither.”

24. “I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the ‘enthusiasm’ is coming on me it is accompanied by a feverish reaching out to my friends. After its over I wince and wither.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “Some morbidity in me attracts mosquitoes.”

25. “Some morbidity in me attracts mosquitoes.”

— Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell Quote: “I’m sure that writing isn’t a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come from some deep impulse, deep inspiration. That can’t be taught, it can’t be what you use in teaching.”

26. “I’m sure that writing isn’t a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come from some deep impulse, deep inspiration. That can’t be taught, it can’t be what you use in teaching.”

— Robert Lowell

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