Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellowwas an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside Poets...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 February 1807
CityPortland, ME
CountryUnited States of America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes about
faces crime retribution
To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
laying-down
Nothing with God can be accidental.
cities tolerance towns
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.
time moving men
The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.
halloween kids air
The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air.
arrows air earth
I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.
literature mercy firmness
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
warrior autumn blood
Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.
farewell air mourning
The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.
poetry elements saturn
The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.
inspirational-love winning ifs
If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
toil immortal
Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.
old-friends welcome
Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.
cities graves
Even cities have their graves!