Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell
Amy Lawrence Lowellwas an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 February 1874
CityBrookline, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Amy Lowell quotes about
humanity soul fiction
Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
elation stagnation mere
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
loneliness moon pity
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
cancer progress disease
Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
missing-you missing-someone heart
I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.
moments immortal mortals
Everything mortal has moments immortal
i-miss-you missing-you going-away
When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.
maturity youth
Youth condemns; maturity condones
gowns up-and-down
I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed.
softness
Not a softness anywhere about me, Only whalebone and brocade.
sunshine may
May is much sunshine through small leaves.
genius world myopic
The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.
romantic firefly dark
Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.
bank blank book drawer few looked peaceful random sort
There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You've unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book