Роберт Лоуэлл цитаты

„Если сравнить интеллект с растением, то книги подобны пчёлам, переносящим оплодотворяющую пыльцу от одного ума к другому.“

„Все прекрасные чувства в мире весят меньше, чем одно доброе дело.“

“In the end, there is no end.”

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

“Once fishing was a rabbit's foot--
O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot,
Let suns stay in or suns step out:
Life danced a jig on the sperm-whale's spout--
The fisher's fluent and obscene
Catches kept his conscience clean.”

“A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket--
The sea was still breaking violently and night
Had steamed into our North Atlantic Fleet,
When the drowned sailor clutched the drag-net. Light
Flashed from his matted head and marble feet,
He grappled at the net
With the coiled, hurdling muscles of his thighs:
The corpse was bloodless, a botch of reds and whites,
Its open, staring eyes
Were lustreless dead-lights
Or cabin-windows on a stranded hulk
Heavy with sand.”