Amy Lowell Quotes

I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

There's not much difference between love and hate.

I'm a child of extremes.

I'm a Gemini, so I'm very dual. I love something and I hate it at the same time, so that probably comes out in the lyrics.

I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam's rib. Then there's Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

I'm a lover and a fighter.

Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.

Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.

I always loved playing extreme opposites, whether it's internal or external.

I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

Too hot to handle, too cold to hold!

I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.

I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special.