Age is our reconciliation with dullness.
Robert Lowell Quotes
This is the end of the whaleroad and the whale Who spewed Nantucket bones on the thrashed swell And stirred the troubled waters to whirlpools To send the Pequod packing off to hell.
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| Birth: | 1st March, 1917 |
| Death: | 12th September, 1977 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet |
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Robert "Cal" Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet, considered to be one of the founders of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress where he served from 1947 until 1948.
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