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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Goodbye, Art, Business
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Eye, Exercise
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

Resolve and thou art free.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Freedom, Commitment
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.811, Jazzybee Verlag

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Death, Art, Dust
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm Of Life”

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life, Death, Art
"A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

Art is the child of Nature.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature, Art, Children
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.645, Library of America

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beauty, God, Art
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.138

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Glory, Used
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mom, Mother, Art
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life, Time, Art
"A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Strong, Sadness
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.152

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Badass, Bad Ass
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Heart, Grace
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.116, Library of America

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Luck, Horseshoes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.103

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Two, Forever
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2078, Delphi Classics

Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of art, An admiral sailing the high seas of thought Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet For lands not yet laid down in any chart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, School, Boys
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1073, Delphi Classics

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Nature, Counterfeit Money
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.645, Library of America

For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Block, Yesterday
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.134

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Unseen, Care
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1868). “Poems”, p.327

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Architecture, Architect
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.29, Wildside Press LLC

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life, Art, Long
"A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Lessons, Shapes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.217

Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mother, Art, Children
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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