"I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart……" — Amy Lowell
"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."
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37 Quotes by Amy Lowell
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How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a…
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
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Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
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Youth condemns; maturity condones
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Even pain pricks to livelier living.
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Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
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Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For…
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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
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I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.
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