Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine.

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History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

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Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.

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Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly!

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Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

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The natural alone is permanent.

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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.

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Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

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Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

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The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

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Life like an empty dream flits by.

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Art is the child of Nature.

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Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

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I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

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I love thee, as the good love heaven.

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A boy's will is the wind's will.

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O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!

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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

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I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will work in my own sphere, nor wish it other than it is. This alone is health and happiness.

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