#lit

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#desire #express #himself #his #lives

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#alone #am #beloved #drops #fire

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#compromise #expedient #good #makes #often

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#endurance #great #hearts #passion #patience

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#great man #made #make #man #meet

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#character #needful #society #solitude #wholesome

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #constituted #deeply

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. ↗

— John Lubbock

#how #knows #last #learn #little

The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#baby #beyond #birth #both #bring

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality. ↗

— George Lucas

#happened #immaculate #innovation #part #quest