Amy Lowell

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

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

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Let us be of cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

When I go away from you the world beats dead like a slackened drum.

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

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

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.

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

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.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

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

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

When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum....

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

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