Quotations by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807–1882) WAS A RENOWNED 19TH-CENTURY NOVELIST AND POET. “My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Secret of the Sea “No one...

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Quotations by Wallace Stevens

WALLACE STEVENS IS A 20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN POET. “The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.” ~ Wallace Stevens, The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm   “If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could...

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Quotations by Sophocles

SOPHOCLES (C. 496 - C. 406 BCE), A PROMINENT ANCIENT GREEK TRAGEDIAN. “Do not believe that you alone can be right. The man who thinks that, The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul— A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.” ~...

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