11 Quotes by Amy Lowell
- A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
- 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.
- All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
- Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
- In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
- Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
- Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
- Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
- Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
- You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
- Youth condemns; maturity condones.
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