Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American professor, linguist and poet. He was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is known as the most popular American poet of the nineteenth century. His poetry and narrative works are memorable for their lyrical, easy rhythm.
"Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Music is the universal language of mankind” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1997
John Ernst Steinbeck was the American writer who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (published 1939) and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” - John Steinbeck
“This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.” - John Steinbeck
“There are some among us who live in rooms of experience we can never enter” - John Steinbeck
“Time is the only critic without ambition.” - John Steinbeck
Happy Birthday to two literary giants.
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Thank you for the tribute to Longfellow - and I completely forgot he shared a birthday with Steinbeck!
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