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Amy Lowell Quotes

«There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You've unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book»
«Even Pain pricks to livelier living.»
Author: Amy Lowell | About: Pain | Keywords: livelier, pricks
«Let the key guns be mounted, make a brave show of waging war, and pry off the lid of Pandora's Box once more»
«Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.»
«Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.»
«Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.»
Author: Amy Lowell | Keywords: beg, buy it, drip, dripping, this one
«All books are either dreams or swords.»
Author: Amy Lowell | Keywords: swords
«Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.»
Author: Amy Lowell | Keywords: joyless, robber
«A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.»
«Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation»
Author: Amy Lowell | Keywords: elation, stagnation

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