Amy Lowell
Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.
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Famous quotes by amy lowell:
“I am very like to swoon
With the weight of this brocade,
For the sun sifts through the shade.”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
“All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words.”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
“Time! Joyless emblem of the greed
Of millions, robber of the best
Which earth can give ...”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
“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.”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
“Because it is my country
And I speak to it of itself
And sing of it with my own voice
Since certainly it is mine.”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)