Famous quotes containing the word lowell:
“But sometimes everything I write
with the threadbare art of my eye
seems a snapshot,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.”
—Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)
“There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)