“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "A Psalm of Life" (1839), stanza 1

About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807 – 1882

American poet, author of 'The Song of Hiawatha' and 'Paul Revere's Ride'.

“Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!”

“Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.”

“From labor there shall come forth rest.”

“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”

“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”

“Imagine what life would be like without imagination!”

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

“These are times in which a genius would wish to live.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”