"Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone"

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Source : Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers (1988). “Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs”, p.188, University of Michigan Press

Robert Lowell

#Sweet Quotes #Joy Quotes #Gone Quotes

“There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.”
“I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.”
“I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!”
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”
“Killing the infidels is our religion, slaughtering them is our religion, until they convert to Islam or pay us tribute.”
“When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.”
“Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.”

Source : "Timothy Geithner’s Legacy". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 24, 2013.
“Everything goes, everything is lost, eventually. But if something is good, it doesn't matter what happens. The ending is still happy.”

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