Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. For a time, he was the employer of former slave and future writer Harriet Jacobs. His brother was the composer Richard Storrs Willis and his sister Sara wrote under the name Fanny Fern...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth20 January 1806
CountryUnited States of America
The position you hold and the work you are now doing.
Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins
Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.
The soul of man createth its own destiny.
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
Spring is a beautiful piece of work; and not to be in the country to see it done is the not realizing what glorious masters we are, and how cheerfully, minutely, and unflaggingly the fair fingers of the season broider the world for us.
The Spring is here--the delicate footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers, And with it comes a thirst to be away. In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours.
It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.
How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!
There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.
We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.