926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

Nothing that is can pause or stay.

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!

Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.