Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes


The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.


Citations

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Ladder of St. Augustine." Birds of Passage. Ticknor and Fields, 1858.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Born: February 27, 1807
  • Died: March 24, 1882
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England.