113 Quotes by Amy Lowell
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My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.
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When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.
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All recurring joy is pain refined.
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The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.
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Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
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Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.
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Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.
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Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.
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Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.
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