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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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Amy Lowell
Age: 51 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 9
Died: 1925
Died: May 12
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Brookline
Massachusetts
Amy Lawrence Lowell
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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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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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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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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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If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.
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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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Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.
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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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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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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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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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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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Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
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Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.
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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
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I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed.
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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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