how fine our distinctions when we cannot choose Author: Robert Lowell Copy Quote More from Robert Lowell “Sleeper in the Valley"The river sings and cuts a hole in the meadow,madly hooki…” “Buttercups"When we were children our papas were stoutAnd colorless as seaweed o…” “....One dark night,my Tudor Ford climbed the hill's skull;I watched for love-ca…” “If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.”