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
fate joy sorrow
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
lying ideas romance
Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.
strong art sadness
Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.
wall knowledge rude
The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.
names giving want
We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.
daughter dark moon
By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
country heart dark
Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?
heart fate grind
A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.
wise writing doors
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
stones world nations
Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!
children book thinking
I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.
men cold
Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad.
sweet nature tears
No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
flower passion gay
Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.