"If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon."
"Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did."
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Source: Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers (1988). “Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs”, p.52, University of Michigan Press
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