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
beautiful travel inheritance
With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.
beautiful travel inheritance
With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.
next genius taste
Taste is the next gift to genius.
beautiful alive tradition
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
beautiful alive tradition
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
heart musical strings
The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
ideas soul age
All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
dark men views
To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.
writing lasts
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.
writing lasts
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.
real men experience
The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
fighting moon sea
The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.
light forever choices
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
light forever choices
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.