Amy Lowell Quotes
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This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.
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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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Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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Even pain pricks to livelier living.
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Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.
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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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Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.
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Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.
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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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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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All recurring joy is pain refined.
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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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If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.
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When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
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Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.
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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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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
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Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
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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.