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. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read Quote
It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read Quote
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read Quote
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read Quote
Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read Quote
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read Quote
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read Quote
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read Quote
