Amy Lowell Quotes
Amy Lowell's lines flow gently and passionately, appealing to anyone drawn to love, growth, and creative process.
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Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.
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Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
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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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Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
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I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.
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I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed.
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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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How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!
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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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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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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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Not a softness anywhere about me, Only whalebone and brocade.