All Quotes by Amy Lowell
“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”
“Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.”
“All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.”
“I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.”
“For books are more than books, they are the life”
“You are ice and fire”
“Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.”
“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.”
“Life is a streamPetal by petal the flower of our heart.”
“I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against”
“I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.”