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Day by Day QUOTES

Day by Day QUOTES

1 " Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme—
why are they no help to me now
I want to make
something imagined, not recalled? "

― Robert Lowell , Day by Day

2 " Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme—
why are they no help to me now
I want to make
something imagined, not recalled?
I hear the noise of my own voice:
The painter’s vision is not a lens,
it trembles to caress the light.
But sometimes everything I write
with the threadbare art of my eye
seems a snapshot,
lurid, rapid, garish, grouped,
heightened from life,
yet paralyzed by fact.

from “Epilogue "

― Robert Lowell , Day by Day

3 " Yet why not say what happened? "

― Robert Lowell , Day by Day