Amy Lowell quotes

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

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

Amy Lowell

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

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

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

Amy Lowell

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

Amy Lowell

For this one transcendent good.

Amy Lowell

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed.

Amy Lowell

The essence and quintessence of their lives. Boston Athenaeum.

Amy Lowell

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

Amy Lowell

I ask but one thing of you, only one,
That always you will be my dream of you. That never shall I wake to find untrue All this I have believed and rested on,
Forever vanished, like a vision gone Out into the night. Alas, how few There are who strike in us a chord we knew Existed, but so seldom heard its tone We tremble at the half-forgotten sound. The world is full of rude awakenings And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground,
Yet still our human longing vainly clings To a belief in beauty through all wrongs. O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!

Amy Lowell

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

Amy Lowell

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Amy Lowell