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

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Amy Lawrence Lowellwas an American poet of the imagist school. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.

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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.

Amy Lowell

US writer (1874-1925)

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

Amy Lowell

US writer (1874-1925)

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

Amy Lowell

US writer (1874-1925)

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

Amy Lowell

US writer (1874-1925)

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Amy Lowell

US writer (1874-1925)

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

Amy Lowell

US writer (1874-1925)

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.

Amy Lowell

US writer (1874-1925)

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

Amy Lowell

US writer (1874-1925)

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

Amy Lowell

US writer (1874-1925)

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

Amy Lowell

US writer (1874-1925)

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Amy Lowell

US writer (1874-1925)

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

Amy Lowell

US writer (1874-1925)

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Amy Lowell

US writer (1874-1925)

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Amy Lowell

US writer (1874-1925)