Poetry Quote by Amy Lowell — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against”

“You are ice and fire”

“Venus Transiens”

“the worst”

“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.”

“... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ...”

“They all tell you not to fight fire with fire,”

“I have started to see poetry in the strangest of things: from the roughest nub of nutmeg to the pale parsnip seamed with soil. And this has made me wonder if I can write a cookery book that includes the truth and beauty of poetry. Why should the culinary arts not include poetry? Why should a recipe book not be a thing of beauty?”

“Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house”