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
onward-and-upward ancient uncouth
Time makes ancient good uncouth.
giving earth dross
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
half taste suits
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
rain fall wind
Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
hands play research
Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.
angel vision doorways
An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.
men ideas long
Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
mud soil
No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
country sentiments our-country
That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."
wine vintage twenties
Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
country ambition men
No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.
writing waiting right-time
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
home household
Many make the household but only one the home.
wise taken cutting
Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.