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Amy Lowell [1874-1925] American

Rank: 106
Poet (with poems)

Fantasy, Free verse, Imagism, Modernism

Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.

Alone, Dreams, Art, Great, Happiness, Science

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.	Art	101
Youth condemns; maturity condones.		102
I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.	Alone, Great	103
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.		104
You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.		105
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.	Alone	106
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.	Science	107
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.		108
All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.	Dreams	109
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.	Dreams	110
A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.		111
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.	Happiness	112
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.		113
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.		114

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