What did James Russell Lowell mean by: The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it. - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA Copy
+ How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Russell Lowell, Invention, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves. Feraz Zeid, September 2, 2023December 26, 2023, James Russell Lowell, Hero, Slavery, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Russell Lowell, Genius, Literature, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ Tyranny is always weakness Feraz Zeid, September 1, 2023December 26, 2023, James Russell Lowell, Tyranny, Weakness, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Russell Lowell, Metaphysics, Philosopher, Temptation, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Russell Lowell, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ That best academy, a mother’s knee. Feraz Zeid, June 17, 2023December 12, 2023, James Russell Lowell, Family, Mom, Mothers Day, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
+ Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Russell Lowell, Breaking Silence, Shadow, Watches, 0 - James Russell Lowell Poet · USA
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
