Amy Lowell Quotes

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart againstThe want of you;Of squeezing it into little inkdrops,And posting it.

~ Amy Lowell

For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe 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

A black cat among roses,phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.It is dazed with moonlight,contented with perfume...

~ Amy Lowell

The inkstand is full of ink, and the paper lies white and unspotted, in the round of light thrown by a candle. Puffs of darkness sweep into the corners, and keep rolling through the room behind his chair. The air is silver and pearl, for the night is liquid with moonlight.See how the roof glitters, like ice!Over there, a slice of yellow cuts into the silver-blue, and beside it stand two geraniums, purple because the light is silver-blue, to-night.

~ Amy Lowell

All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

~ Amy Lowell

Christ! What are patterns for?

~ Amy Lowell

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

~ Amy Lowell

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

~ Amy Lowell

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

~ Amy Lowell

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

~ Amy Lowell

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.

~ Amy Lowell