What did James Russell Lowell mean by: And the choice goes by forever ‘twixt that darkness and that light. - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA Copy
+ And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Russell Lowell, Pearls, Snow, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Russell Lowell, Stories, Vices, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Russell Lowell, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself. Feraz Zeid, July 17, 2023December 12, 2023, James Russell Lowell, Materials, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Russell Lowell, Duty, Gold, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Russell Lowell, Strength, Strong, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Russell Lowell, Nature, Worn, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes. Feraz Zeid, October 30, 2023December 26, 2023, James Russell Lowell, Heart, Suffering, Woe, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
You can’t make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · USA
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. - Walter Darby Bannard Painter · USA
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one’s taste for choosing. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate. - Jean Vanier Philosopher and theologian
Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature? - Jean-Dominique Bauby Journalist · France