"Creative activity is one of the few self rewarding activities. Being creative is like being in love!"

“There is no virtue in poverty.”

“I fell in love with Africa while I was there.”

“Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.”

“With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.”

“What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.”

“Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.”

“Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.”

Source : Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.6, Ardent Media

“I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.”