As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical

Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: Mind Quotes

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find...

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find...

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but...

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but...

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Evil is only good perverted.

Evil is only good perverted.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But...

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But...

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as...

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as...

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is...

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is...

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow...

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow...

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers...

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers...

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why...

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why...

Love gives itself; it is not bought

Love gives itself; it is not bought

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

Youth comes but once in a lifetime

Youth comes but once in a lifetime

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach...

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach...

Resolve and thou art free.

Resolve and thou art free.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the...

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the...

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its...

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its...

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the...

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the...