Quotes by Lowell, James Russell

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest. >>

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it wer >>

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts a >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: b >>

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. >>

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense >>

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

Lowell, James Russell