Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Every human heart is human.

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The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

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How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

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Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

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O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

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Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.

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To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

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The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

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The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

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One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

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And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.

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Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

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O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings.

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

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Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

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I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

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There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars.

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And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

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