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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.

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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Brookline
Massachusetts
Amy Lawrence Lowell
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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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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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Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
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Not a softness anywhere about me, Only whalebone and brocade.
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All recurring joy is pain refined.
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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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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
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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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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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Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin
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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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Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.
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This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.
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Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.
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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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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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My! ain't men blinder'n moles?
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You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
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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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