It's terrible, Bob, to think that all I've suffered, and all the suffering I've caused, might have arisen from the lack of a little salt in my brain.
Robert Lowell, CC BY-SA 4.0
The poets who most directly influenced me ... were Allen Tate, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams. An unlikely combination! ... but you can see that Bishop is a sort of bridge between Tate's formalism and Williams's informal art.
Robert Lowell, CC BY-SA 4.0
Christ walks on the black water. In Black Mud Darts the kingfisher. On Corpus Christi, heart, Over the drum-beat of St. Stephen’s choir I hear him, Stupor Mundi, and the mud Flies from his hunching wings and beak—my heart, The blue kingfisher dives on you in fire.
Robert Lowell, CC BY-SA 4.0
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.
Robert Lowell, CC BY-SA 4.0
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.
Robert Lowell, CC BY-SA 4.0
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.
Robert Lowell, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Nationalities: United States
Cause of death: myocardial infarction
Languages: English
Notable works: Lord Weary's Castle, Life Studies, For the Union Dead
Education: Harvard College, Harvard University, Kenyon College, St. Mark's School