American poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of the greatest poets in American history. Born in Portland, Maine, He became professor of Modern Languages in Harvard University; wrote "Hyperion," a romance in prose, and a succession of poems as well as lyrics, among the former "Evangeline," "The Golden Legend," "Hiawatha," and "Miles Standish"
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. Go to Quote / Comment
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. Go to Quote / Comment
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Go to Quote / Comment
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth. Go to Quote / Comment
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. Go to Quote / Comment