Amy Lowell Quotes

Youth condemns; maturity condones.
Amy Lowell

Maturity, Youth, Condemns

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

Life, Men, Heart

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
Amy Lowell

Hate, Place, Descending

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Amy Lowell

Science, Read, Literature

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
Amy Lowell

Dreams, Everything, Easy

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
Amy Lowell

Snow, Fire, Touch

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
Amy Lowell

Men, Again, Next

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
Amy Lowell

Dreams, Words, Books

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell

Art, Lives, Desire

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
Amy Lowell

Happiness, Others, Stagnation

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.
Amy Lowell

Great, Alone, Tired

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Amy Lowell

Cheer, Bear, Hardest

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
Amy Lowell

Loneliness, Before, Moon

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

Time, Best, Greed

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 9, 1874

Died: May 12, 1925

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