Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

American - Poet | February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

ManWorldHammerMustEitherAnvil

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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

LifeSadHistoryManSufferingFind

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wake UpEnoughLongYouGateUp

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

GreatSmall ThingsPeopleSucceed

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

GreatManCitySweetEnjoySecurity

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

MenSocietyGeniusStoneEarthDull

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

PainFeelGoSufferPartingStay

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

IntelligenceHouseFindGoldenRoom

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

PassionAlwaysLeavePretendFoolish

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

SunshineHouseHillOldGhostsFull

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

WorkHeartArtGraceEveryHis

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

HeartWaitFateLearnDoingLabor

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