James Russell Lowell Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Light is the symbol of truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Light, Literature, Spiritual Healing

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

• Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Law, Atheism

  James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale (1902). “Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell”

• Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Peace, Children

• Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

  James Russell Lowell

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Addiction

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.416

• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

  James Russell Lowell

  Funny, Truth, Agreement

  James Russell Lowell (1887). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

• Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Foundation, Sap

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1871). “The North American Review”, p.189

• The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Broken Heart, Sorrow

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.284, Delphi Classics

• The eye is the notebook of the poet.

  James Russell Lowell

  Notebook, Eye, Literature

• And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

  James Russell Lowell

  June, Perfect Days, Literature

  "The Vision of Sir Launfal" prelude to pt. 1, st. 5 (1848)

• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Literature, Sincere

  James Russell Lowell (1877). “Among My Books”

• Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Bravery, Literature, Weak

• If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

  James Russell Lowell

  Time, Literature, Youth

  James Russell Lowell (1897). “The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...”

• Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

  James Russell Lowell

  Grief, Joy, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.118

• Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

  James Russell Lowell

  Literature, World, Born

• The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

  James Russell Lowell

  War, House, Mind

  1869 'On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners', in the Atlantic Monthly, Jan.

• In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Literature, Morality

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.61

• I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

  James Russell Lowell

  Knives, Mind, Democracy

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Letters, ed. by C. E. Norton”

• What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Men, Funeral

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

• It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Doe, Genius, 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.

  James Russell Lowell

  Soil, Generations, Sap

• 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.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thieves, Rust, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary and political addresses”

• He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Progress, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.6

• 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.

  James Russell Lowell

  Style, Mind, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.88

• Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

  James Russell Lowell

  Discipline, Example, Literature

• An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Long, People

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Literary and political addresses”

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