Quote of the Day (Amy Lowell, on Art as ‘The Desire of a Man to Express Himself’)

“Art, true art, is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.”—American poet-critic Amy Lowell (1874-1925), "New Poetry," Tendencies in Modern American Poetry (1917)