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I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against
The want of you;
Of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it. — Amy Lowell

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools. — James Russell Lowell

Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best. — James Russell Lowell

All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words. — Amy Lowell

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented ... — Amy Lowell

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. — Amy Lowell

In the end, there is no end. — Robert Lowell

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. — James Russell Lowell

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. — James Russell Lowell

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. — James Russell Lowell

An imagination left alone in the dark can be a terrible thing. — Catherine Lowell

How fine our distinctions when we cannot choose — Robert Lowell

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men. — Amy Lowell

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it. — Elizabeth Lowell

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. — James Russell Lowell

We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation — Lowell L. Bennion

All that hath been majestical
In life or death, since time began,
Is native in the simple heart of all,
The angel heat of man. — James Russell Lowell

Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness? — Amy Lowell

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting. — James Russell Lowell

Too many memories, each one sharper and more painful than the last. — Elizabeth Lowell

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs. — James Russell Lowell

I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you. — Elizabeth Lowell

Never underestimate the sacrifices you will make for love . . . — Catherine Lowell

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame. — James Russell Lowell

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line. — Amy Lowell

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. — James Russell Lowell

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful. — James Russell Lowell

An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went. — James Russell Lowell

If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed. — Amy Lowell

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. — James Russell Lowell