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May is much sunshine through small leaves.

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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
May
Much
Sunshine
Leaves
Small

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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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Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.
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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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If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.
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Not a softness anywhere about me, Only whalebone and brocade.
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I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.
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All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.
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Everything mortal has moments immortal
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You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
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The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.
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Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
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Youth condemns maturity condones
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Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.
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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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On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns maturity condones.
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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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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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