Robert Lowell Quotes

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.

Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

I have other fish to fry.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.

There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.

They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.