Amy Lowell

“ Rapture's self is three parts sorrow. ”

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

“ Happiness: We rarely feel it.
I would buy it, beg it, steal it,
Pay in coins of dripping blood
For this one transcendent good.
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