"This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This……" — Amy Lowell
"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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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm…
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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck…
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Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
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I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't…
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As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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