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

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All things are beautiful
Because of something lovelier than themselves,
Which breathes within them, and will never die.

Poems (1869)

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)

These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths,
With dear companions now passed out of sight,
Shall not be laid upon their graves.

Poems (1869)

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)

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