James Russell Lowell Soul Quotations

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

My soul is not a palace of the past...