Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.
James Russell Lowell
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Speak
Highest
Two
Genius
May
Second
Compel
Firsts
Told
Understands
First
Present
Wishes
Must
Age
Tells
Kind
Wish
Kinds
Understand
Eternal
More quotes by James Russell Lowell
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell Lowell
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
James Russell Lowell
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
James Russell Lowell
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
James Russell Lowell
I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
James Russell Lowell
Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.
James Russell Lowell
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
James Russell Lowell
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
James Russell Lowell
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
James Russell Lowell
It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.
James Russell Lowell
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
James Russell Lowell
What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, more bright than morn! And voices chanted clear and sweet, To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
James Russell Lowell
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
James Russell Lowell
Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!
James Russell Lowell
What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
James Russell Lowell
It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
James Russell Lowell
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
James Russell Lowell
No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
James Russell Lowell
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
James Russell Lowell
Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
James Russell Lowell
