Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell
Amy Lawrence Lowellwas an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 February 1874
CityBrookline, MA
CountryUnited States of America
confused america sublime
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.
powerful poetry literature
Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented ...
rooms emptiness tick
How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!
literature recognition reason
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
missing-you missing-someone heart
I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.
spring flower moon
Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs in dooryards Holding quiet conversation with an early moon; Lilacs watching a deserted house; ... Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom, You are everywhere.
hate skulls descending
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
flower butterfly wings
Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
humanity soul fiction
Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
girlfriend wine mouths
When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
love-is facts mystery
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
dream book reading
All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
art men expression
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
american-poet prone
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.