James Russell Lowell Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

  James Russell Lowell

  Poetry, Mastery, Logic

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell”

• Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Men, Poetry

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.40

• Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.

  James Russell Lowell

  Strong, Blue, Sky

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.138

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