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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
Socialite
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Brookline
Massachusetts
Amy Lawrence Lowell
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Poetry

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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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On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns maturity condones.
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Even pain pricks to livelier living.
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Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.
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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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When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.
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I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed.
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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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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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How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!
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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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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
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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 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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Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.
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I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.
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Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.
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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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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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Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.
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