Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

Poet

• Art is the child of Nature.
  • Source: Keramos

• Into each life some rain must fall,
  Some days must be dark and dreary.
  • Source: The Rainy Day

• Let us, then, be up and doing.
  With a heart for any fate;
  Still achieving, still pursuing,
  Learn to labor and to wait.
  • Source: A Psalm of Life

• Something attempted, something done,
  Has earned a night's repose.
  • Source: The Village Blacksmith

• One half of the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

• Look, then, into thine heart, and write!
  • Source: Voices of the Night