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Restless Quotes by Amy Lowell

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This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.

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Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

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On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

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Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

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I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained…

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I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed.

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Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin

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Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

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How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

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Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent…

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“Christ! What are patterns for?”

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Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

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Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.

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