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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

James Russell Lowell
Writing, Night, Two
James Russell Lowell, “For An Autograph”

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

James Russell Lowell
Children, Writing, Fit
James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.162

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

James Russell Lowell
Lying, Believe, Writing
James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.162

Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.

James Russell Lowell
Writing, Lasts
James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.639, Delphi Classics

It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.

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

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

James Russell Lowell
Writing, Waiting, Right Time
James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “Letters”

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