Amy Lowell

“And the texture of the imminent day is like the texture of a sigh.”

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

“My words are little jars for you to take and put upon a shelf.”

“There are two things which are vital to the creation of an imaginative work: the belief in the importance of that work and the will to create it.”

“Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is written in prose form.”

“A woman of parts is a dangerous thing.”

“I am a woman and my heart is a shameless traitor.”

“Life is a stream on which we strew petals of happiness as they float through.”

“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.”

“The poem is a thing of watery salt, a scrap of sea-breeze, a bit of puff-paste, and a little hint of horn.”

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

“Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.”

“Christ! What are patterns for?”