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Amy Levy Quotes

1861–1889 England

Amy Judith Levy (10 November 1861 – 9 September 1889) was an English essayist, poet, and novelist.

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Yet fair are days in summer; and more fair
The growths of human goodness here and there.

A London Plane-tree, and Other Verse (1889)

Death, as a general statement, is so easy of utterance, of belief; it is only when we come face to face with it that we find the great mystery so cruelly hard to realise; for death, like love, is ever old and ever new.

The Romance of a Shop (1888)

To hold the pure delights of brain
Above light loves and sweet champagne.
For, you and I, we did eschew
The egoistic "I" and "you."

A London Plane-tree, and Other Verse (1889)

Some men sicken, with wine and food;
I starved on dreams, and found them good.

A London Plane-tree, and Other Verse (1889)

Oh, who can sound the human breast?
And this strange truth must be confessed;
That city do I love the best
Wherein my heart was heaviest!

A London Plane-tree, and Other Verse (1889)

Scarce friends, not lovers (each avers),
But sexless, safe Philosophers.

A London Plane-tree, and Other Verse (1889)

Dead love or dead ambition, say,
Which mourn we most?
Not much we weigh
Platonic friends.

A London Plane-tree, and Other Verse (1889)

This is the end of him, here he lies:
The dust in his throat, the worm in his eyes,
The mould in his mouth, the turf on his breast;
This is the end of him, this is best.

A Minor Poet, and Other Verse (1891)

That she had been brought face to face with the sterner side of life, had lost some illusions, suffered some pain, she did not regret. It seemed to her that she had not paid too great a price for the increased reality of her present existence.

The Romance of a Shop (1888)

For good or evil, these waifs on the great stream of London life had drifted together; how long the current should continue thus to bear them side by side—how long, indeed, they should float on the surface of the stream at all, was a question with which, for the time being, they did not very much trouble themselves.

The Romance of a Shop (1888)

A curious, dreamlike sensation stole over Gertrude at finding herself once again in a roomful of people; and as an old war-horse is said to become excited at the sound of battle, so she felt the social instincts rise strongly within her as the familiar, forgotten pageant of nods and becks and wreathed smiles burst anew upon her.

The Romance of a Shop (1888)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amy Levy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.