Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
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Famous James Russell Lowell Quotes
Source: The English Poets Lessing: Rousseau
Source: The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary and political addresses
Source: My Study Windows
“Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
Source: Among My Books
“Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
Source: Abraham Lincoln
Source: Literary and political addresses
“But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
Source: Among My Books: First [-second] series
Source: Among my Books, etc
Source: Among My Books: Six Essays
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
Source: Poems
Source: Fireside Travels
Source: Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels
Source: Among my Books, etc
Source: Literary and political addresses
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Taste is the next gift to genius.”
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
Source: Among My Books: First [-second] series
“The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.”
Source: Literary and political addresses
“Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
Source: My Study Windows
Source: My Study Windows
Source: Fireside Travels
“A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.”
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
Source: My Study Windows
Source: Poems
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.”
Source: Essays, English and American
“The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.”
Source: Under the Willows, and Other Poems
“The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.”
“A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.”
Source: Among my Books, etc
“To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.”
Source: My Study Windows
Source: Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels
“Many make the household but only one the home.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell