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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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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


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The human voice is the organ of the soul.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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He pursued his literary goals by submitting poetry and prose to various newspapers and magazines partly due to encouragement from a professor named Thomas Cogswell Upham. When the younger Fanny was born on April 7 1847 Dr. His publiHenry Wadsworth Longfellowd poetry shows great versatility using anapestic and trochaic forms blank verse heroic couplets ballads and sonnets.

He has been criticized however for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses. His first wife Mary Potter died in 1835 after a miscarriage. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of the five Fireside Poets.

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