Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

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Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

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Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

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A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving.

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What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?

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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

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Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll.

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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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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

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Nothing that is can pause or stay.

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The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the full river of feeling overflows;- The happy days unclouded to their close; The sudden joys that our of darkness start As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!

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For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

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Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

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Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

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Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

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Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

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And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

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Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.

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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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