Cobblestones Lowell Quotes

A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. ~ James Russell Lowell

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. ~ James Russell Lowell

Beyond Stone Ring Keep's high walls, the wind wailed of coming winter. Ariane didn't hear the mournful cry. She heard nothing but echoes ~ Elizabeth Lowell

Humbleness is always grace; always dignity ~ James Russell Lowell

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

When you are older, you will realize that the things you feel to be true don't require verbal confirmation. ~ Catherine Lowell

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face. ~ James Russell Lowell

Once fishing was a rabbit's foot
O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot ~ Robert Lowell

I had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again. ~ Mike Lowell

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust. ~ James Russell Lowell

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves. ~ James Russell Lowell

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail. ~ James Russell Lowell

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. ~ Abbott L. Lowell

Sorrow is the great idealizer. ~ James Russell Lowell

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it. ~ James Russell Lowell

The curtains were blood-red and drawn. This was not an office. It was a small library, two storeys high, with thin ladders and impractical balconies and an expansive ceiling featuring a gaggle of naked Greeks. It was the sort of library you'd marry a man for. ~ Catherine Lowell

F we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train. ~ Robert Lowell

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change. ~ James Russell Lowell

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

That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong." ~ James Russell Lowell

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised. ~ James Russell Lowell

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. ~ James Russell Lowell

What is dollar value but something to amuse people who have no imagination? People who have money and no imagination follow fashion. People who have imagination and no money fashion styles. ~ Elizabeth Lowell

Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze ... ~ 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

Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. ~ James Russell Lowell

Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. ~ James Russell Lowell

He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes. ~ James Russell Lowell

As subtle and universally pervasive as gravity, love touches everything, and enhances everything it touches. ~ Elizabeth Lowell

For four years I have been wearing blinders. I thought all this time I walked a path of cobblestones, and it turns out to have been an avenue of stars! For four years, my head has been caught in a box. Its sides were painted with pleasant enough scenes, but that I should have thought this was the world! ~ Franny Billingsley

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous. ~ James Russell Lowell

The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is like putting nitroglycerine in a Waring blender. ~ Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.