926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.

Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

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.