Russell

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    Then, with eyes that saw not, I kissed her;
    And she, kissing back, could not know
    That my kiss was given to her sister,
    Folded close under deepening snow.
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    “There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
    That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;
    A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
    So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet,
    Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)