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

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

Amy Lowell

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“I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the ones who attacked the United States of America on 9/11.”
“I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.”
“Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action”
“My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.”
“Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.”
“There's a bit of a difference in the way he sounds. Samuel E. Wright lent his voice and personality to the animated film with his booming voice. I have a high-tenor voice. Instead, I have to figure out a way to convince the audience to come along with me and accept this new texture and tambour to the way Sebastian sounds. I have a great dialect coach.”
“Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.”
“Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.”

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