Amy Lowell quotes

Amy Lowell was an American poet, critic, and a prominent figure in the Imagist literary movement. Her vivid imagery and innovative free verse greatly influenced modern poetry in the early twentieth century. She championed the work of other poets and contributed significantly to the acceptance of new poetic forms. Here are 23 of her quotes:

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. (Amy Lowell)
You are ice and fire The touch of you burns my hands like snow. View quote
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How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! View quote
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The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius. View quote
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Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart. View quote
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To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader. View quote
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Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies. View quote
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Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation. View quote
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Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance. View quote
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. View quote
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Youth condemns; maturity condones. (Amy Lowell)
All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words. View quote
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Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity. View quote
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Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented. View quote
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Don't ask a writer what he's working on. It's like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease. View quote
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. View quote
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I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it. View quote
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A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume. View quote
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When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way. View quote
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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. View quote
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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men. (Amy Lowell)
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. View quote
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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. View quote
Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: February 9, 1874
Died: May 12, 1925
Quotes count: 23
Wikipedia: Amy Lowell

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