Hiawatha Quotes

#1. Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Erica Jong

#2. By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#3. Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#4. For they both were solitary,
She on earth and he is heaven.
And he wooed her with caressed,
Wooed her with his smile of sunshine
-Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Jana Oliver

#5. One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#6. In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

Randall Terry

#7. It takes the same amount of energy to worry about the worst thing that can happen as it does to hope for the best. It's up to you to choose.

Gail Tsukiyama

#8. All the other chiefs and tribes have accepted the Great Law of Peace. They now live in peace with one another.

Hiawatha

#9. There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Taylor Swift

#10. Every human longs for peace and love.

Hiawatha

#11. It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

Hiawatha

#12. Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

Hiawatha

#13. Left unattended, problems only intensify.

Mary Kay Ash

#14. Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

Rachel Cusk

#15. But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carry with him when he set out that morning. Things of the past, like the fragile boy he had been, had no place on a man's journey towards his future.

Madeline Claire Franklin

#16. One of the central issues in the world population crisis is poverty.

Carl Sagan

#17. Peace will be when you accept it in your heart.

Hiawatha

#18. I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.

Sylvia Plath

#19. I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Juan Rulfo