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
love-is facts mystery
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
girlfriend wine mouths
When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
flower butterfly wings
Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
humanity soul fiction
Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
spring flower moon
Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs in dooryards Holding quiet conversation with an early moon; Lilacs watching a deserted house; ... Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom, You are everywhere.
literature recognition reason
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
sacrifice men next
A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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.
hands ice fire
You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
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.