Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/writing

Famous quotes containing the words wadsworth, longfellow and/or writing:

    “Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
    Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
    So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
    Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

    “In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

    “It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)