Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/writing

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

    “Often I think of the beautiful town
    That is seated by the sea;”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “I shot an arrow into the air,
    It fell to earth, I knew not where;”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “Pride and humiliation hand in hand
    Walked with them through the world where’er they went;
    Trampled and beaten were they as the sand,
    And yet unshaken as the continent.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “I breathed a song into the air,
    It fell to earth, I knew not where;”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn’t be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.”
    —Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)