Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Tis always morning somewhere.

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Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

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All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

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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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Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

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Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

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Mine is the Month of Roses; yes, and mine The Month of Marriages! All pleasant sights And scents, the fragrance of the blossoming vine, The foliage of the valleys and the heights. Mine are the longest days, the loveliest nights; The mower's scythe makes music to my ear; I am the mother of all dear delights; I am the fairest daughter of the year.

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Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!

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The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea.

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Youth comes but once a life time. Perhaps, but it remains strong in many for their entire lives.

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

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If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

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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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The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

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Let us then, be up and doing.

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