Quotes from Amy Lowell

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

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

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

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

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.