Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it! When thou smilest, my beloved, Then my troubled heart is brightened, As in sunshine gleam the ripples That the cold wind makes in rivers.

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Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

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Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed.

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Time is the life of the soul.

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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

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White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

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Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

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I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.

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O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine!

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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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Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

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We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

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In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

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Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

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What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

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

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The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.

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Into each life some rain must fall.

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