"The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air" — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time

Source: The Builders, The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness

Source: Endymion (1818)

Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

The poetry of the earth is never dead

Source: On the Grasshopper and Cricket (1816)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote