Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes about Ambition

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I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lying, Ambition, Light

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.157

Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beautiful, Ambition, Ideas

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America