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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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Amy Lowell
Age: 51 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 9
Died: 1925
Died: May 12
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Amy Lawrence Lowell
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Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
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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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Everything mortal has moments immortal
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To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know.
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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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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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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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Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.
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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
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Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.
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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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My! ain't men blinder'n moles?
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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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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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The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.
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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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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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Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.
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How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!
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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
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