3 James Russell Lowell Quotes on Originality

James Russell Lowell quotes on originality

23. Though old the thought and oft expressed, 'Tis his at last who says it best.

25. How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies, I give thanks For a new relish, careless to inquire My pleasure's pedigree, if so it please, Nobly, I mean, nor renegade to art. The Grecian gluts me with its perfectness, Unanswerable as Euclid, self-contained, The one thing finished in this hasty world, Forever finished, though the barbarous pit, Fanatical on hearsay, stamp and shout As if a miracle could be encored.

77. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.