926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

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