Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Amy Lowell, born Amy Lawrence Lowell

American Poet, Critic, Biographer

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

"Youth condemns; maturity condones."

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."