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
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!
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Look, then, into thine heart, and write!
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The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.
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Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.
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Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?
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Perseverance is a great element of success.
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Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
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Art is the child of Nature.
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The soul...is audible, not visible.
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Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
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Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.
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I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.