Quotes by Lowell, Amy




Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926..

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

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

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"Even Pain pricks to livelier living."

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

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"All books are either dreams or swords."

Lowell, Amy on books - reading
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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 lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."

Lowell, Amy on books - reading
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"Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give."

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