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
brave literature weak
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
literature privilege doe
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
giving literature return
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
character sap literature
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
literature world born
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
grief joy literature
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
discipline literature shapes
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
ocean literature morality
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
style mind literature
It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.
generations sap literature
Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.
rust literature riches
The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
literature lasts should
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.
perfect-days june literature
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
notebook eye literature
The eye is the notebook of the poet.