Mar 16, 2024
Robert Lowell, from a letter featured in Robert Lowell In Love originally pub. in 2015
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Robert Lowell, from a letter featured in Robert Lowell In Love originally pub. in 2015
"to endure!"
vincent van gogh ("trees and undergrowth") robert lowell [How will the heart endure?] vincent van gogh [I must endure bad times and the waters will rise, possibly as high as the lips and possibly even higher, how can I know beforehand? But I’ll fight my fight and sell my life dearly and try to win and pull through.] rainer maria rilke [To be loved means to be consumed. To love means to radiate with inexhaustible light. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.] joan didion [Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it.] elena ferrante [maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.] elena ferrante [I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.] han kang [The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure.] victor frankl [What is to give light must endure burning.]
From David Grene's review of Robert Lowell's translation of Aeschylus's Oresteia, cited in Wendy Doniger's translation of the Rig Veda
Robert Lowell, "The Nihilist as Hero"
Robert Lowell, March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977.
1970 photo by Gerard Malanga.
Poetry
Today's poetry reading is called "Adam and Eve" by Robert Lowell. I have been remiss in not showing up and reading any poetry, and I aim to make amends.
Enjoy the reading. I'm a bit nasal, as they say, but it's okay. It's okay sometimes to show up as our true selves and not pretend otherwise.
(No, this isn't AI-generated; this is the real deal.)
Take care, Julian
Robert Lowell on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Sokol: Retratos de autores en sus propias palabras.
George Bernard Shaw: "El camino del héroe"
James Joyce: "Ulises"
Robert Lowell: "History"
William Faulkner: "El sonido y la furia"
Robert Penn Warren : "Audubon"
James Tate: "Riven Doggeries"
John Keats: "Lamia"
Walt Whitman: "Hojas de hierba"
Eudora Welty: "Powerhouse"
Henrik Ibsen: "Hedda Gabler"
Dante Alighieri: "Infierno"
Jorge Luis Borges: "El milagro secreto"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "Salmos de vida"
