Poetry Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”

“Tell me not in mournful numbers,”

“Art is long, and Time is fleeting.”

“Ye are better than all the ballads”

“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;”

“Some hae meat and canna eat,”

“I embraced a cloud,”

“Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?”

“It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And yet, those evil spirits that were unleashed—be they fake entities from a stupid carnival ride, or cruel malevolencies from dark spiritual chasms of our universe—have stayed with me all these years”

“Fascists always attack minorities,”

“I thought leaving you would be easy,”