Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green...

Spontaneity is the province of youth

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

To be young is the only religion.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Do you suppose she's a wildflower?

Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.

May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.

Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.