American poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of the greatest poets in American history. Born in Portland, Maine, He became professor of Modern Languages in Harvard University; wrote "Hyperion," a romance in prose, and a succession of poems as well as lyrics, among the former "Evangeline," "The Golden Legend," "Hiawatha," and "Miles Standish"
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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 Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture. Go to Quote / Comment
The course of my long life hath reached at last In fragile bark o'er a tempestuous sea... Go to Quote / Comment
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. Go to Quote / Comment
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do. Go to Quote / Comment
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead. Go to Quote / Comment