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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

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation. — Amy Lowell

All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words. — Amy Lowell

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented ... — Amy Lowell

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. — Amy Lowell

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. — Amy Lowell

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie. — Amy Lowell

I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul. — Amy Lowell

To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know. — Amy Lowell

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

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity. — Amy Lowell

Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies. — Amy Lowell

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

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art! — Amy Lowell

Christ! What are patterns for? — Amy Lowell

Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good. — Amy Lowell

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

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. — Amy Lowell

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. — Amy Lowell

All recurring joy is pain refined. — Amy Lowell

Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose. — Amy Lowell

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius. — Amy Lowell

Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning. — Amy Lowell

Witches are moon-birds,
Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon. — Amy Lowell

Everything mortal has moments immortal — Amy Lowell

Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run. — Amy Lowell

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! — Amy Lowell

I shall go
Up and down
In my gown.
Gorgeously arrayed,
Boned and stayed. — Amy Lowell

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow. — Amy Lowell

If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed. — Amy Lowell

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

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

Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness? — Amy Lowell

You are ice and fire
The touch of you burns my hands like snow — Amy Lowell

Not a softness anywhere about me,
Only whalebone and brocade. — Amy Lowell

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. — Amy Lowell

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

In my stiff, brocaded gown.
With my powdered hair and jeweled fan,
I too am a rare
Pattern. — Amy Lowell

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

When I go away from you
The world beats dead
Like a slackened drum. — Amy Lowell

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

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

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

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

Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved. — Amy Lowell

May is much sunshine through small leaves. — Amy Lowell

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

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. — Amy Lowell

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones. — Amy Lowell

Even Pain pricks to livelier living. — Amy Lowell