"If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon."
"History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes."
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Source: Robert Lowell (2017). “New Selected Poems”, p.145, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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