America Quote by Amy Lowell

Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good…

— Richard Wright

It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic.…

— Neil Gaiman

The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their…

— Joseph Pulitzer

If you go by that little inscription on the Statue of Liberty, the purest idea of America is complete cultural chaos.

— Everlast

“What is beautiful reminds us of nature as such—of what lies beyond the human and the made—and thereby stimulates and deepens our sense of…

— Susan Sontag

The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.

— Harold Bloom

“The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an…

— Robert Stone

The beauty of America is its freedoms and the promise that you can achieve your dreams, no matter your race, sex, country of origin,…

— Karine Jean-Pierre

You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta…

— Bharati Mukherjee

At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something…

— Henry Rollins

America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the new city,…

— Anne Waldman

America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America…

— John Updike