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Amy Lowell Quotes

1874–1925 United States

Amy Lawrence Lowell (9 February 1874 – 5 May 1925) was an American poet of the Imagist school who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.

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You are beautiful and faded
Like an old opera tune
Played upon a harpsichord.

Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart.

Happiness, to some elation;
Is to others, mere stagnation.

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

Can Grande's Castle (1921)

To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

I have lived in a place,
I shall die in a place,
I have no craving for distant lands.
But a place is nothing, not even space,
Unless at its heart a figure stands.

A wise man,
Watching the stars pass across the sky,
Remarked:
In the upper air the fireflies move more slowly.

All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
* * * * * *
My swords are tempered for every speech,
For fencing wit, or to carve a breach
Through old abuses the world condones.

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.

Attribution

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