James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowellwas 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 who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 February 1819
CountryUnited States of America
James Russell Lowell quotes about
friendship years tree
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
truth forever shadow
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
loyalty ideas sublime
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
heart soul genius
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
friends boys toys
When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp...
beautiful death sweet
But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
death angel dying
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
writing lasts
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.
snow tree pearls
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.
weed flower eye
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
ocean literature morality
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
knives mind democracy
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
ocean sea pirate
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
discipline literature shapes
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.