Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round,
If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Begirt with many a blazing star, Stood the great giant Algebar, Orion, the hunter of the beast!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
A fisherman stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair,
Lashed close to a drifting mast.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: "Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." "Come, wander with me," she said, "Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow