Amy Lowell Quotes - Page 2

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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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• My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they have many pleasant colours and lustres To recommend them. Also the scent from them fills the room With sweetness of flowers and crushed grasses.

  Amy Lowell

  Beautiful, Flower, Scent

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.57, 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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• My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.

  Amy Lowell

  Wall, Passion, Heart

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

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• Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer.

  Amy Lowell

  Stars, Heart, Voice

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

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• Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

  Amy Lowell

  Happiness, Elation, Stagnation

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Even pain pricks to livelier living.

  Amy Lowell

  Pain

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our view, We only watch their glad, early start. Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose; Their widening scope, Their distant employ, We never shall know. And the stream as it flows Sweeps them away, Each one is gone Ever beyond into infinite ways. We alone stay While years hurry on, The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.

  Amy Lowell

  Dream, Flower, Heart

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

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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.

  Amy Lowell

  Use, Cadence, Kind

  "Can Grande's Castle". Book by Amy Lowell, 1921.

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• I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springing of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in a city square Amazes my eyes as though it were the Parthenon.

  Amy Lowell

  Sweet, Eye, Tired

  1925 'Meeting-House Hill'.

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• Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.

  Amy Lowell

  Romantic, Firefly, Dark

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.28, Rutgers University Press

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• I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find untrue All this I have believed and rested on, Forever vanished, like a vision gone Out into the night. Alas, how few There are who strike in us a chord we knew Existed, but so seldom heard its tone We tremble at the half-forgotten sound. The world is full of rude awakenings And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground, Yet still our human longing vainly clings To a belief in beauty through all wrongs. O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!

  Amy Lowell

  Dream, Song, Heart

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.70, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

  Amy Lowell

  Intelligent, Feet, Desire

  "Dial", January 1917.

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• I shall go
  Up and down
  In my gown.
  Gorgeously arrayed,
  Boned and stayed.

  Amy Lowell

  Gowns, Up And Down

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.60, Rutgers University Press

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• Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

  Amy Lowell

  Time, Giving, Greed

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

  Amy Lowell

  Broken Heart, Love Is, Thinking

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

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• A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

  Amy Lowell

  Sacrifice, Men, Generations

  1922 'A Critical Fable'.

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• May is much sunshine through small leaves.

  Amy Lowell

  Sunshine, May

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• Witches are moon-birds,
  Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.

  Amy Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

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• My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

  Amy Lowell

  Men, Moles

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Men, Women and Ghosts”, p.166, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When I go away from you
  The world beats dead
  Like a slackened drum.

  Amy Lowell

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.66, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Not a softness anywhere about me,
  Only whalebone and brocade.

  Amy Lowell

  Softness

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.58, Rutgers University Press

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• Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

  Amy Lowell

  Horse, War, Soldier

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Men, Women and Ghosts”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In a glitter of silly decorations. Behind the boys And the old men, Life weeps, And shreds her garments To the blowing winds.

  Amy Lowell

  War, Silly, Boys

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• Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding, But she guesses he is near, And the sliding of the water Seems the stroking of a dear Hand upon her.

  Amy Lowell

  Hands, Water, Gowns

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Men, Women and Ghosts”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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