Everywhere, giant finned cars ...

Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.
Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.
 Robert Lowell

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.
 Robert Lowell
the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath
 Robert Lowell
The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.
 Robert Lowell
I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn. But where The wind is westerly, Where gnarled November makes the spiders fly Into the apparitions of the sky, They purpose nothing but their ease and die Urgently beating east to sunrise and the sea.
 Robert Lowell