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Quotes from Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary — Lucy Larcom

1824–1893 United States

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The noblest of men and friends has left the world, — Phillips Brooks.

Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)

Eternal life and eternal death; what do these words mean?

Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)

Where he is, life must be. He lived only in realities here, and he is entering into the heart of them now.

Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)

What does cause depression of spirits? Heavy head and heavy heart, and no sufficient reason for either, that I know of.

Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.

Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)

We are strange phenomena to ourselves, when we will stop to gaze at ourselves; but that I do not believe in; there are pleasanter subjects, and self is a mere speck on the great horizon of life.

Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)

O Mariner-soul,
Thy quest is but begun,
There are new worlds
Forever to be won.

Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)

By making themselves believe that to be the all-important question, they draw off their own and others' attention from the really momentous one, — "Am I living the eternal life? Is it begun in me now?"

Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lucy Larcom (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.