Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes — Page 31

Poet, Educator

Sad

“I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.”

Eye Beautiful Stars

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

Calm

“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.”

Cities Sky Swans

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Grateful

“Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.”

Stars Rain

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Curious

“I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.”

Air Earth

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Spiritual

“God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.”

Voice Fire Earthquakes

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Love

“O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.”

Heart Eye Pain

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Spiritual

“Nothing is or can be accidental with God.”

Accidents

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Happy

“Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.”

Heart Home

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Melancholic

“Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.”

Two Death Angel

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Calm

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

Light Clouds Sunset

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Wise

“Men are four; He who knows and knows not that he knows. He is asleep; wake him. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not. He is a fool; shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not. He is a child; teach him. He who knows and knows that he knows. He is a king; follow him. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.”

Children Night Kings

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Creative

“I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.”

Song Strong Friendship

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