Quotes by Lowell Stone

“Oh Florence, Florence, patronessof the lovely tyrannicides!Where the tower of the Old Palacepierces the skylike a hypodermic needle,Perseus, David and Judith,lords and ladies of the Blood,Greek demi-gods of the Cross,rise sword in handabove the unshavenformless decapitationof the monsters, tubs of guts,mortifying chunks for the pack.Pity the monsters!Pity the monsters!Perhaps, one always took the wrong side -Ah, to have known, to have lovedtoo many David and Judiths!My heart bleeds for the monster.I have seen the Gorgon.The erotic terrorof her helpless, big-bosomed bodylay like slop.Wall-eyed, staring the despot to stone,her severed head swunglike a lantern in the victor’s hand.””

“Oh to break loose like the chinooksalmon jumping and falling back,nosing up to the impossiblestone and bone-crushing waterfall....Time to grub up and junk the year'soutput, a dead wood of dry verse:dim confession, coy revelation,liftings, listless self-imitation,whole days when I could hardly speak,came pluming home unshaven, weakand willing to read anyonethings done before and better done....””

“Fragment"What is poetry? Is it a mosaicOf coloured stones which curiously are wroughtInto a pattern? Rather glass that's taughtBy patient labor any hue to takeAnd glowing with a sumptuous splendor, makeBeauty a thing of awe; where sunbeams caught,Transmuted fall in sheafs of rainbows fraughtWith storied meaning for religion's sake.””

“Beyond Stone Ring Keep’s high walls, the wind wailed of coming winter. Ariane didn’t hear the mournful cry. She heard nothing but echoes””

“The people in the world were destroying all that was good in it. They were destroying the best in it. Themselves.””