Quotes from Poems — James Russell Lowell
1819–1891 United States
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Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.
Poems (1844)
All thoughts that mould the age begin
Deep down within the primitive soul.
Poems (1844)
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,
One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man;
Great souls are portions of eternity.
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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.
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No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him. There is always work,
And tools to work withal, for those who will;
And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
Poems (1844)
The real doth not clip the poet's wings,—
To win the secret of a weed’s plain heart
Reveals some clue to spiritual things,
And stumbling guess becomes firm-footed art.
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New times demand new measures and new men;
The world advances, and in time outgrows
The laws which in our father's times were best;
And doubtless, after us, some purer scheme
Will be shaped out by wiser men than we,
Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.
Poems (1844)
His words were simple words enough,
And yet he used them so,
That what in other mouths was rough
In his seemed musical and low.
Poems (1844)