Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

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In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

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The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.

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Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

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Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

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History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

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If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

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The soul...is audible, not visible.

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Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

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It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

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The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

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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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Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.

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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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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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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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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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Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

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