Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.


The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (ed. 1851)


Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.