Quotes by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

All things must change to something new, to something strange. >>

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in t >>

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plaste >>

Quotations about Critics and Criticism

Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. >>

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shor >>

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in appl >>

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth