Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Time, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.164

• As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor. Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead Which, the more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mother, Children, Sleep

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.322, Penguin

• For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Understanding, Next, Poet

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.62

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