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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody Go to Quote / Comment
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. Go to Quote / Comment
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.'' Go to Quote / Comment
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. Go to Quote / Comment
The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air. Go to Quote / Comment