Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Appreciation, Teacher

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

• O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Men, Heaven

• For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter
  Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Forgiveness, Sweet, Earth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.576

• Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Writing, Language, Superfluous

  "The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow".

• Music is the language spoken by angels.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Angel, Language, Music Is

• Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Flower, Blue

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.10

• Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spiritual, Twilight, Feelings

  "Hyperion" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1853.

• No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Literature, Language, Written

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