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Amy Lowell Quotes

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his...

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

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

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...

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Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evi...

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I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart againstThe want of you;Of squeezing it into little inkdrops...

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

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The inkstand is full of ink, and the paper lies white and unspotted, in the round of light thrown by...

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Christ! What are patterns for?

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A black cat among roses,phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,the sweet smells of heliotrope and ...

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I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink dr...

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For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past,The reason why ...

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All books are either dreams or swords.

Happiness to some is elation to others it is mere stagnation.

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Amy Lowell

Poet

Born: 1874-02-09

Died: 1925-05-12

Amy Lawrence Lowell (9 February 1874 – 5 May 1925) was an American poet of the Imagist school who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.More