Quotes from Fable for Critics — James Russell Lowell
1819–1891 United States
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Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
Fable for Critics (1848)
A terrible thing to be pestered with poets!
But, alas, she is dumb, and the proverb holds good,
She never will cry till she's out of the wood!
Fable for Critics (1848)
For, of all compositions, he thought that the sonnet
Best repaid all the toil you expended upon it.
Fable for Critics (1848)
His Nature's a glass of champagne with the foam on 't,
As tender as Fletcher, as witty as Beaumont;
So his best things are done in the flash of the moment.
Fable for Critics (1848)
They believed—faith, I'm puzzled—I think I may call
Their belief a believing in nothing at all,
Or something of that sort; I know they all went
For a general union of total dissent.
Fable for Critics (1848)