What did James Russell Lowell mean by: One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. James Russell Lowell Poet · USA Copy
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b’lieve ’em too hard. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James Russell Lowell, Beliefs, Caution, Skepticism, 0 James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
Every person born into this world their work is born with them. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James Russell Lowell, Identity, Inheritance, Work, 0 James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James Russell Lowell, Beauty, Love, Privacy, 0 James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James Russell Lowell, Longing, Moment, Transcendence, 0 James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned. Author, October 13, 2023January 2, 2025, James Russell Lowell, Faith, Perseverance, Resilience, 0 James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James Russell Lowell, Genius, Originality, Sameness, 0 James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James Russell Lowell, Growth, Transition, Youth, 0 James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude. Author, October 17, 2023January 2, 2025, James Russell Lowell, Growth, Reflection, Solitude, 0 James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted Max Ernst Surrealist artist · Germany
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. George Eliot Author · England
