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Amy Lowell Quotes: Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
         

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.


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I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.



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Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.



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



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



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Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.



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



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



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



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If I cannot fix your broken heart can I put mine in its place, because these stars are not enough, and all the money in the world does not equal your worth.



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