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Balance Quote by Amy Lowell

“I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.” quote by Amy Lowell — Download Open image

“I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.”

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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 to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that…

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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