A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

Quote by James Russell Lowell

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only...

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only...

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the...

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the...

Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew...

Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew...

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those...

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those...

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it...

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it...

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that...

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that...

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say...

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say...

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at...

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at...

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is...

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is...

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto...

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto...

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure,...

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure,...

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.