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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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  • The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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  • When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
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