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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

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Amy Lowell
Age: 51 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 9
Died: 1925
Died: May 12
Poet
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Writer
Brookline
Massachusetts
Amy Lawrence Lowell
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Men
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World
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
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My! ain't men blinder'n moles?
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Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?
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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
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When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.
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A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume.
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Everything mortal has moments immortal
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Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.
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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.
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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.
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All recurring joy is pain refined.
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Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.
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Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.
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Even pain pricks to livelier living.
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Youth condemns maturity condones
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Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
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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 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.
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Happiness, to some, is elation to others it is mere stagnation.
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