82 Quotes by Lucy Larcom

Those who plant trees plant hope.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain would fond winds fan her back to life, Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses...

I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.

Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul.

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.

Sometimes it seems to me that God 's way of dealing with me is not to let me see much of my friends, those who are most to me in the spiritual life, lest I should forget that the invisible bond is the only reality. That is the only way I can reconcile myself to the inevitable separations of life and death.