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“ History has to live with what was here,clutching and close to fumbling all we had -it is so dull and gruesome how we die,unlike writing, life never finishes. ”

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

~ Robert Lowell

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

~ Robert Lowell

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

~ Robert Lowell

No weekends for the gods now. Warsflicker, earth licks its open sores,fresh breakage, fresh promotions, chanceassassinations, no advance.Only man thinning out his own kindsounds through the Sabbath noon, the blindswipe of the pruner and his knifebusy about the tree of life...Pity the planet, all joy gonefrom this sweet volcanic cone;peace to our children when they fallin small war on the heels of smallwar - until the end of timeto police th eearth, a ghostorbiting forever lostin our monotonous sublime.

~ Robert Lowell