Amy Lowell Quotes & Sayings

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

“Youth condemns; maturity condones.”

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

“You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.”

“In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.”

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

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

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

“Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.”

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”