Amy Lowell Quotes

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• 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

  Art, Men, Expression

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.7, Ardent Media

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• All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

  Amy Lowell

  Dream, Book, Reading

  "Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds" l. 291 (1914)

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• How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

  Amy Lowell

  Rooms, Emptiness, Tick

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.52, Rutgers University Press

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• Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

  Amy Lowell

  Flower, Butterfly, Wings

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

  Amy Lowell

  Soul, Humanity, Fiction

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.11, Ardent Media

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• When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

  Amy Lowell

  Love, Girlfriend, Wine

  Amy Lowell (2004). “Selected Poems”

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• Everything mortal has moments immortal

  Amy Lowell

  Moments, Immortal, Mortals

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

  Amy Lowell

  Myopic, Genius, World

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.

  Amy Lowell

  Life, Flower, Heart

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

  Amy Lowell

  Powerful, Poetry, Literature

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.79, Ardent Media

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• Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

  Amy Lowell

  Love Is, Facts, Mystery

  Amy Lowell (1969). “John Keats”, Shoe String Pr Inc

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• Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

  Amy Lowell

  Literature, Recognition, Poet

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.11, Ardent Media

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• I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.

  Amy Lowell

  Writing, Creating, Agony

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• This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.

  Amy Lowell

  Confused, America, Sublime

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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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.

  Amy Lowell

  Cancer, Writing, Progress

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• Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.

  Amy Lowell

  Art, Lines, Theory

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.6, Ardent Media

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• Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.

  Amy Lowell

  Art, Emotion, Tendencies

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.7, Ardent Media

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• I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.

  Amy Lowell

  Writing, Poetry, Arriving

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• Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.

  Amy Lowell

  Heart, Men, Soul

  Amy Lowell (1971). “Poetry and Poets: Essays”, p.3, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

  Amy Lowell

  Hate, Skulls, Beaks

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• Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple,
  Colour of lilac,
  Your great puffs of flowers
  Are everywhere in this my New England ...
  Lilacs in dooryards
  Holding quiet conversation with an early moon;
  Lilacs watching a deserted house; ...
  Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom,
  You are everywhere.

  Amy Lowell

  Spring, Flower, Moon

  Amy Lowell, “Lilacs”

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• So with the stretch of the white road before me,
  Shining snow crystals rainbowed by the sun,
  Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue shadows,
  Strong with the strength of my horse as we run.
  Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight!
  Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.

  Amy Lowell

  Running, Strong, Horse

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All recurring joy is pain refined.

  Amy Lowell

  Pain, Joy, Refined

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

  Amy Lowell

  Happiness, Elation, Stagnation

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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.

  Amy Lowell

  Missing You, Missing Someone, Tired

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.52, Rutgers University Press

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