robertlowell

Former Poet Laureate

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When your private experience converges on the nation's experience, you have to do something.

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@ElizabethBishop Asking you is the might have been for me, the one towering change, the other life that might have been had.

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@ElizabethBishop We seem attached to each other by some stiff piece of wire so that each time one moves the other moves in another direction

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@ElizabethBishop We've missed each other once at Harvard and twice at Ezra's. How about New York?

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Cock of the walk,
I strut in my turtle-necked French sailor’s jersey.

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I am a fisherman myself, but all my fish become symbols, alas!