"Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our view, We only watch their glad, early start. Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose; Their widening scope, Their distant employ, We never shall know. And the stream as it flows Sweeps them away, Each one is gone Ever beyond into infinite ways. We alone stay While years hurry on, The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays."
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Amy Lowell quotes (page 2 of 4)
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"Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning."
"I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done."
"How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!"
"If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed."
"Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run."
"Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line."
"I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed."
"How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?"
"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."
"Even pain pricks to livelier living."
"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."
"My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they have many pleasant colours and lustres To recommend them. Also the scent from them fills the room With sweetness of flowers and crushed grasses."
"Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity."
"Rapture's self is three parts sorrow."
"I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springing of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in a city square Amazes my eyes as though it were the Parthenon."
"May is much sunshine through small leaves."
"Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness."
"Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease."