Amy Lowell Quotes

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To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know.

Amy Lowell
The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of a genius.

Amy Lowell
But a place is nothing, not even space,
Unless at its heart a figure stands.

Amy Lowell
How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

Amy Lowell
Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.

Amy Lowell
Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

Amy Lowell
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.

Amy Lowell
I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.

Amy Lowell
So with the stretch of the white road before me,
Shining snow crystals rainbowed by the sun,
Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue shadows,
Strong with the strength of my horse as we run.
Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight!
Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.

Amy Lowell
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

Amy Lowell