Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

685 quotes · Poet, Educator

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

Lonely

“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.”

Heart Clouds Sunshine

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

Funny

“A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.”

Clever Dirty Letters

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Creative

“Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.”

Eye Lying Loyalty

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Calm

“All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.”

Rain Weather

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Sad

“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”

Believe Heart

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Grateful

“In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!”

Night Fire December

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Spiritual

“In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.”

Light Night Wall

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Calm

“Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.”

Air Clouds Snow

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Love

“That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings Of that mysterious instrument, the soul, And play the prelude of our fate. We hear The voice prophetic, and are not alone.”

Life Song Fate

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Wise

“With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.”

Writing Mistake Style

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Creative

“Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.”

Painting Sculpture Phantoms

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Sad

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.”

Light Fear Rays

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