Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Language
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Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.
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For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!
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Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.
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O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.
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Music is the language spoken by angels.
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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.
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