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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow è stato uno scrittore e poeta statunitense, tra i primi letterati americani ad assurgere alla fama mondiale.

Longfellow fu il più famoso poeta della scena del New England nell''800 e scrisse numerose opere tra cui Evangeline e Il faro. Fu un acceso promotore dell'abolizione della schiavitù negli anni prima e durante la Guerra Civile Americana insieme ad altri intellettuali che gravitavano nell'orbita di Harvard e soprattutto insieme all'allora Governatore del Massachusetts John Andrew.

Intorno al 1862 insieme ai letterati James Russell Lowell, Oliver W. Holmes e George Washington Greene diede vita al cosiddetto "Circolo Dante", atto a promuovere la conoscenza della Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri negli Stati Uniti. Insieme ai suoi colleghi del circolo, Longfellow ne portò a termine la prima traduzione statunitense in inglese nel 1867. Da allora il successo dell'opera di Dante in America fu costante ed in seguito il Circolo diventò la "Dante Society", una delle più famose associazioni di dantisti nel mondo. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Febbraio 1807 – 24. Marzo 1882   •   Altri nomi Генри Уодсворт Лонгфелло, Longfello Genri Uodsuort
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Frasi e Citazioni

“Se la primavera venisse una volta ogni 100 anni invece di una volta all'anno, o sopraggiungesse con il boato di un terremoto, con quanta meraviglia gli uomini assisterebbero a una tale mutamento! Il silenzioso susseguirsi delle stagioni, invece, fa ormai pensare soltanto a una necessità.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sugli uomini , Primavera , Stagione

“Per la maggior parte degli uomini solo la cessazione del miracolo sarebbe miracolosa, e il perpetuo esercizio del potere divino sembra meno meraviglioso di quanto non sarebbe la sua assenza.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Origine: Citato in Selezione dal Reader's Digest, giugno 1974.

Sull'arte , Sugli uomini , esercizi

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Frasi in inglese

“Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Table-Talk (1857)

“Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate,
Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours
Weeping upon his bed has sate,
He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow libro Hyperion

Motto, Hyperion, book i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Hermes:
Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.”

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The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems (1875)

“The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And mournings for the dead.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation

“She floats upon the river of his thoughts.”

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The Spanish Student http://www.readbookonline.net/title/3208/, Act II, sc. iii (1843).

“It is the fate of a woman
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,
Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Part VI.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

“The scholar and the world! The endless strife,
The discord in the harmonies of life!
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books;
The market-place, the eager love of gain,
Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!”

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St. 23.
Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)

“Footprints, that perhaps another,
Travelling o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life

St. 8.
A Psalm of Life (1839)

“If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me,
Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me?
If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Pt. III, The Lover's Errand.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

“Three Silences there are: the first of speech,
The second of desire, the third of thought;
This is the lore a Spanish monk, distraught
With dreams and visions, was the first to teach.”

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The Three Silences of Molinos http://www.readbookonline.net/read/3051/12504/ (1878).

“There is no Death! What seems so is transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
Whose portal we call Death.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation

Resignation, st. 5.

“Read from some humbler poet,
Whose songs gushed from his heart,
As showers from the clouds of summer,
Or tears from the eyelids start.”

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St. 7.
The Day is Done (1845)

“Stronger than steel is the sword of the Spirit;
Swifter than arrows, the light of the truth;
Greater than anger is love that subdueth.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

The Nun of Nidaros, st. 9.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

“No one is so accursed by fate,
No one so utterly desolate,
But some heart, though unknown,
Responds unto his own.”

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Endymion, st. 8 (1842).

“And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Arrow and the Song

The Arrow and the Song, st. 3.

“Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

Pt. I, The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride, st. 1.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

“Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act in the living present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life

St. 6.
A Psalm of Life (1839)

“Were half the power that fills the world with terror,
Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts,
Given to redeem the human mind from error,
There were no need of arsenals and forts.”

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The Arsenal at Springfield.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Nothing useless is, or low;
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Builders

The Builders, st. 2 (1849).

“The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.”

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The Herons of Elmwood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“This is the place. Stand still, my steed,—
Let me review the scene,
And summon from the shadowy past
The forms that once have been.”

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A Gleam of Sunshine, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Arrow and the Song

The Arrow and the Song, st. 1 (1845).

“Moons waxed and waned, the lilacs bloomed and died,
In the broad river ebbed and flowed the tide,
Ships went to sea, and ships came home from sea,
And the slow years sailed by and ceased to be.”

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Lady Wentworth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Look, then, into thine heart, and write!”

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Voices of the Night http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/Chap1.html, Prelude, st. 19 (1839).

“The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, — the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.”

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Table-Talk (1857)

“Let him not boast who puts his armor on
As he who puts it off, the battle done.
Study yourselves; and most of all note well
Wherein kind Nature meant you to excel.
Not every blossom ripens into fruit.”

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St. 11.
Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)

“What land is this? Yon pretty town
Is Delft, with all its wares displayed:
The pride, the market-place, the crown
And centre of the Potter's trade.”

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Kéramos http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/chap22.html, line 66; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 187.

“In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the gods see everywhere.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Builders

The Builders (1849).

“When we reflect that all the aspects of Nature, all the emotions of the soul, and all the events of life, have been the subjects of poetry for hundreds and thousands of years, we can hardly wonder that there should be so many resemblances and coincidences of expression among poets, but rather that they are not more numerous and more striking.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Table-Talk (1857)

“Into a world unknown,—the corner-stone of a nation.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Part V; referring to Plymouth Rock
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

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