Lucy Larcom Quotes

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Lucy Larcom

Cold, Seems, Warm

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
Lucy Larcom

Smile, Tears, Rainbows

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
Lucy Larcom

Music, Thoughts, Enough

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
Lucy Larcom

Good, Best, Sunshine

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.
Lucy Larcom

Women, Nothing, Two

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 5, 1824

Died: April 17, 1893

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