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
country 4th-of-july cinco-de-mayo
There is something magnificent in having a country to love.
fall autumn hair
What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
men genius talent
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
hypocrisy devil intolerance
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
compromise poor umbrella
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
men giving every-man
The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
summer june may
No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.
men tree proportion
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
humility equality people
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
science age latter
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the latter poetry has become science.
life ocean men
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.
memories knowledge mean
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
ambition sublime lines
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
notebook eye literature
The eye is the notebook of the poet.