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
mud soil
No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
youth young gifts-of-life
To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
onward-and-upward ancient uncouth
Time makes ancient good uncouth.
speaks-out two age
There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.
reputation
O reputation! dearer far than life.
archer fate white
Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
caprice idleness
Idleness induces caprice.
mothers-day mom motherhood
That best academy, a mother's knee.
onward-and-upward duty teach
New occasions teach new duties.
snow tree pearls
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.
nurse soul solitude
The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
crystals fancy emotion
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
firefly pulse meadows
The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
afar skirts praise
Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then