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

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


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

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



In the end, there is no end.

In the end, there is no end.



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.

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.



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

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



Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.



Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.



It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.



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.

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.



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

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



I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.





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My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

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The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.



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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.



I changed up everything around me. I hold myself more accountable in certain situations. I try to be a better man, a better father, a better teammate.

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Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.

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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.




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