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

Love

“Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.”

Voice Choices Beauty

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

Love

“The hearts of some women tremble like leaves at every breath of love which reaches them, and they are still again. Others, like the ocean, are moved only by the breath of a storm, and not so easily lulled to rest.”

Heart Ocean Storm

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Lonely

“Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.”

Voice Silence

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Optimistic

“A boy's will is the wind's will.”

Children Son

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Calm

“And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.”

Night Music Poetry

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Love

“Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.”

Life Names Color

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Creative

“Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”

Ideas Beautiful Ambition

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Creative

“Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.”

Men Hands Reality

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Creative

“As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different note, Stole from the varying tones, that hung Vibrant on every iron tongue, The secret of the sounding wire. And formed the seven-chorded lyre.”

Doors Secret Iron

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Inspired

“Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of art, An admiral sailing the high seas of thought Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet For lands not yet laid down in any chart.”

Art School Boys

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Wise

“Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.”

Challenges Army Criticism

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Curious

“Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.”

Self Nature Conceited

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