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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet

Lived from: 1807 - 1882

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 27 february 1807 Died: 24 march 1882

  • Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
  • All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''
  • Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

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  • A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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  • Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
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  • The holiest of all holidays are those
    Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
    The secret anniversaries of the heart,
    Holidays
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  • Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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  • Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
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What are the most famous quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

The two most famous quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are:

  • "A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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  • "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."

When did Henry Wadsworth Longfellow live?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in 1807 and died in the year 1882.