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You are ice and fire The touch of you burns my hands like snow.
Amy Lowell
How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!
Amy Lowell
The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.
Amy Lowell
Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.
Amy Lowell
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.
Amy Lowell
Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.
Amy Lowell
Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
Amy Lowell
Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.
Amy Lowell
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Amy Lowell
All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
Amy Lowell
Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
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
Don't ask a writer what he's working on. It's like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
Amy Lowell
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
Amy Lowell
I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.
Amy Lowell
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.
Amy Lowell
When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.
Amy Lowell
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
Amy Lowell
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Amy Lowell
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
Amy Lowell