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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.

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More quotes by Amy Lowell

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.

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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