Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Literature
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Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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