Her German language made my arteries harden-I've no annuity for the play we blew. I chartered an aluminum canoe, I had her six times in the English Garden.
Robert LowellAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: american
- Born: March 1, 1917
- Died: September 12, 1977
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