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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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Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.
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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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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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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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Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
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My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.
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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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Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.
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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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Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
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Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.
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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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May is much sunshine through small leaves.
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Even pain pricks to livelier living.
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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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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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Youth condemns maturity condones
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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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