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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

A wise man travels to discover himself. — James Russell 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

Only the most hardy of living things survive renewal. — Elizabeth Lowell

Strange things happen between here and there, — Nathan Lowell

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

Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes. — Lowell Ganz

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days. — James Russell Lowell

The surest plan to make a Man
Is, think him so. — James Russell 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

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field. — James Russell Lowell

In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet. — Robert Lowell

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. — James Russell Lowell

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth. — James Russell Lowell

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. — James Russell Lowell

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time. — James Russell Lowell

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

I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines. — Chris Lowell

His expression was impassive. Somewhere, I just knew, he must have a slew of illegitimate children, all named Bartholomew. — Catherine Lowell

Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge. — James Russell Lowell

He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned. — James Russell Lowell

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. — James Russell Lowell

Silence is sorrow's best food. — James Russell 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

O reputation! dearer far than life. — James Russell Lowell

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. — 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

Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw. — James Russell Lowell

September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn. — Robert Lowell

Out of gas ... I haven't heard that one in a long time. — Carey Lowell

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. — James Russell Lowell

The gift without the giver is rare. — James Russell Lowell

not as a potential lover. Roger would have liked it otherwise, but he was wise — Elizabeth Lowell

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. — James Russell Lowell

I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends. — Chris Lowell

There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers. — James Russell Lowell

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same. — Amy Lowell

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. — James Russell Lowell

Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart. — James Russell Lowell

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons. — James Russell Lowell

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. — James Russell Lowell

To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends. — James Russell Lowell

In my stiff, brocaded gown.
With my powdered hair and jeweled fan,
I too am a rare
Pattern. — Amy Lowell

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. — James Russell Lowell

Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California. — Ronald Reagan

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. — James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. — James Russell Lowell

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. — James Russell Lowell

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. — Amy Lowell

Clouds veiled the mountains, — Elizabeth Lowell

The dead season when wolves live off the wind. — Robert Lowell

Many make the household but only one the home. — James Russell Lowell

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer. — Nathan Lowell

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough. — James Russell 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

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. — James Russell Lowell

Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease. — Robert Lowell

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

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

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

How fine our distinctions when we cannot choose — Robert Lowell

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. — James Russell 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 man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men. — Amy Lowell

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

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated. — 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

The green grass floweth like a stream
Into the oceans's blue. — James Russell Lowell

How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope? — Elizabeth Lowell

And faith, which is but hope grown wise, and love And patience, which at last shall overcome." Lowell. — Jeanie Lang

It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness.
And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always. — Elizabeth Lowell

Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it. — James Russell Lowell

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. — James Russell Lowell

I remember the first time I fell in love. That rush is just overwhelming and you don't think there's ever going to be anything like it. — Chris Lowell

Not a softness anywhere about me,
Only whalebone and brocade. — Amy Lowell

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

History is clarified experience. — James Russell Lowell

Humbleness is always grace; always dignity — James Russell Lowell

I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated. — Lowell Bergman

May is a pious fraud of the almanac. — James Russell Lowell

Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave. — James Russell Lowell

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. — James Russell Lowell

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself. — James Russell Lowell

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. — James Russell Lowell

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving. — James Russell Lowell

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp ... — James Russell Lowell

You are ice and fire
The touch of you burns my hands like snow — Amy Lowell

It's not a visitation by angels, but a weakening in the blood
a magical orange grove in a nightmare — Robert Lowell