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.
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James Russell Lowell was a 19th-century American poet and diplomat. James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets to rival the popularity of British poets. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Fate loves the fearless.”
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“Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.”
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“In creating the only hard thing's to begin”
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“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
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“A wise man travels to discover himself.”
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“The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.”
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