Lowell

Famous quotes containing the word lowell:

“I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–91)

“All night I’ve held your hand,
as if you had
a fourth time faced the kingdom of the mad—
its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye—
and dragged me home alive. . . .”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“but we wish the river had another shore,
some further range of delectable mountains,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)