Age is our reconciliation with dullness.
Robert Lowell Quotes
Life is too short to silver over this tarnish. The gods, employed to haunt and punish husbands, have no hand for trigger-fine distinctions, their myopia makes all error mortal.
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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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