Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was a US writer, poet, and essayist. She was a major figure in imagist movement who advocated strong unsentimental style in verse. Amy posthumously won Pulitzer Prize in 1926.

Wisdom & Quotes

• This is America,

This vast confused beauty,
This staring, restless speed of loveliness,
Mighty, overwhelming, crude of all forms,
Making grandeur out of profusion,
Afraid of no incongruities,
Sublime in its audacity,
Bizarre breaker of molds.
- The Congressional Liberty, What's O'Clock

• Love is a game - Yes?

I think it is a drowning.
- 'Twenty-four Hokku (Haiku) on a Modern Theme,' What's O'Clock

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

- Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

• Youth condemns; maturity condones.

- Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

• You are beautiful and faded

Like an old opera tune
Played upon a harpsichord.
- A Lady

• All books are either dreams or swords.

- Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds

• An atom tossed in a chaos made

Of yeasting worlds, which bubble and foam.
Whence have I come?
What would be home?
I hear no answer. I am afraid!
- Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds

Saul Tchernichovski