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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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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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Poetry
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Happiness, to some, is elation to others it is mere stagnation.
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
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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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Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.
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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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Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
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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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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
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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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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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On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns maturity condones.
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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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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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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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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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Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
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I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.
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Everything mortal has moments immortal
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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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Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.
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