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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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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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Universe
Stupendous
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Love
Sexual
Senses
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Mystery

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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: 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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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
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Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding, But she guesses he is near, And the sliding of the water Seems the stroking of a dear Hand upon her.
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Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.
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Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.
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Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.
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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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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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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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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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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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Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.
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Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.
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Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.
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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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Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.
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To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know.
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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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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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