4 James Russell Lowell Quotes on Emotion

James Russell Lowell quotes on emotion

46. Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

47. Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how; Everything is happy now, Everything is upward striving; 'Tis as easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue,- 'Tis the natural way of living: Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache; The soul partakes the season's youth, And the sulphurous rifts of passion and woe Lie deep 'neath a silence pure and smooth, Like burnt-out craters healed with snow.

64. It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.

85. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion,-emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.