Longfellow

Famous quotes containing the word longfellow:

“A wind came up out of the sea,
And said, “O mists, make room for me.””
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

“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 (1807–1882)

“Some critics are like chimneysweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from the nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing out from the top of the house, as if they had built it.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)