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
giving gold duty
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.
onward-and-upward duty teach
New occasions teach new duties.
beauty sweet eye
Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.
lying hate love-is
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
pride weakness twins
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
education knowledge knowing
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
ignorance intelligent dangerous
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
brother heart hands
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
mothers-day mom motherhood
That best academy, a mother's knee.
spring may fraud
May is a pious fraud of the almanac.
spring flower evil
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
wise wisdom criticism
Wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
truth honesty heart
Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
lying real blessed
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.