James Russell Lowell ✓

(1819–1891) poet United States

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[Wikipedia] James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets to rival the popularity of British poets. These writers usually used conventional forms and meters in the

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• Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven. Believe
• Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many. Argument
• The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white. All
• A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity Age
• The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself. Better
• Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it. Drop
• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof. Compromise
• Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. Forever
• In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. Bend
• The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for… Born
• Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. Citizens
• Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. Elder
• He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent… All
• Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean. Carried
• 'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking. Alone
• I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the… Counsel
• How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as… Blood
• They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. Ancestry
• If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,-and… Answer
• From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its… Absorbs
• Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. Cannot Make
• There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on. Emerson
• The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. Better
• Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer… Call
• We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. Agin

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