Longfellow Quotes

... I once shook hands with Longfellow at a garden party in 1881; and I often saw Dr. Holmes, who was our neighbor in Beacon Street: but Emerson I never saw. (George Santayana)
Longfellow Serenade, Such were the plans I'd made. For she was a lady And I was a dreamer, With only words to trade. View quote
Neil Diamond
Had it not been for Thomas Paine I could not deliver this lecture here to-night. It is still fashionable to calumniate this man - and yet Channing, Theodore Parker, Longfellow, Emerson, and in fact all the liberal Unitarians and Universalists of the world have adopted the opinions of Thomas Paine. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music. View quote
Van Wyck Brooks
I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow. View quote
Margaret Atwood