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James Russell Lowell Quotes about Literature

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Light is the symbol of truth.

Light is the symbol of truth.

James Russell Lowell

Light, Literature, Spiritual Healing

James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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”

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

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

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

James Russell Lowell

Giving, Literature, Return

James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.63

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)

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

James Russell Lowell

Notebook, Eye, 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.

James Russell Lowell

Style, Mind, Literature

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

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

James Russell Lowell

Bravery, Literature, Weak

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”

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

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 ...”

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

[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.

James Russell Lowell

Literature, Lasts, Should

James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.41

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

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