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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

James Russell Lowell
Age, Needs, Poet
James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

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Science, Age, Latter
"Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels".

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

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Ideas, Soul, Age
James Russell Lowell, “An Incident In A Railroad Car”

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

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Long, Age, Pathways
James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.74

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