Inspirational Quotes and Sayings ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was a prominent U.S. poet and educator. Longfellow was a professor of modern languages at Bowdoin. Afterwards he took up the professorship at Harvard College. However, in 1854 he retired from teaching in order to devote full time to his writing. Longfellow was one of the five Fireside Poets and the first American to translate The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. His best known poetry works include “Evangeline”, “Paul Revere’s Ride”, “The Song of Hiawatha”, “The Village Blacksmith”, “The Wreck of the Hesperus”.