Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

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If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

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Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

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Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

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The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

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For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness.

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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

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With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

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The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

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A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

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Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad.

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A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

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In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

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I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

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By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

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Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.

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When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.

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