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Amy Lowell Inspirational Quotes (66)

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I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.
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Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.
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Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
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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.
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Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.
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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.
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Happiness, to some, is elation to others it is mere stagnation.
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Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
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All recurring joy is pain refined.
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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.
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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
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Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
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How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!
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All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
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My! ain't men blinder'n moles?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everything mortal has moments immortal
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When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.
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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.
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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
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Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight.
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