Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Shadow Quotations

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.