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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."

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

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness."
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"Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation."
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"You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow."
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"Youth condemns; maturity condones."
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"A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men."
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"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."
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"In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern."
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"All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words."
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"Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils."
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"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."
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