This quote is written / told by James Russell Lowell between February 22, 1819 and August 12, 1891. He/she was a famous Poet from USA.
The author also have 54 other quotes.
"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface"
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair"