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I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

Amy Lowell

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Amy Lowell
Age: 51 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 9
Died: 1925
Died: May 12
Poet
Socialite
Writer
Brookline
Massachusetts
Amy Lawrence Lowell
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Creeds
Atheism
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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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In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern.
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How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!
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May is much sunshine through small leaves.
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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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Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.
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Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs in dooryards Holding quiet conversation with an early moon Lilacs watching a deserted house ... Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom, You are everywhere.
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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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Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
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Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.
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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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Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
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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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When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.
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When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.
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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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Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their of courses Are not quite the same.
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Youth condemns maturity condones
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Happiness, to some, is elation to others it is mere stagnation.
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