113 Quotes by Amy Lowell

All books are either dreams or swords.

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,Laughing with strength,Charging down on the past,Glorious and conquering,Destroyer, builder,Invincible pith and marrow of the world,An old world remaking,Whirling into the no-world of all-colored light.

Christ! What are patterns for?

Witch-heart, are you gold or black?

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.