Amy Lowell Quotes

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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 bed of tulips; The moon,…
• Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
• Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
• Youth condemns; maturity condones
• Even pain pricks to livelier living.
• Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
• A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
• Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
• Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.
• Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
• Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
• I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.
• If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.
• I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find…
• Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
• Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
• Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?
• To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know.
• Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.
• 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…

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