Inspirational Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
“Surely,” said I, “surely that is something at my window lattice; Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore—”
“EDGAR ALLAN POE was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, the second of three children born to actors David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins.”
“Other friends have flown before - On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.”
“For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Nameless here for evermore.”
“Estremeciéndome al rumor de esta respuesta lanzada con tanta oportunidad, exclamé: «Sin duda lo que ha dicho constituye todo su saber, que aprendió en casa de algún infortunado, a quien”
“Assim pôsto, devaneando, Meditando, conjeturando, Não lhe falava mais; mas, se lhe não falava, Sentia o olhar que me abrasava.”
“... laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed; And, close as sin and suffering joined, We march to Fate abreast.”
“It has often been said that the New World is deficient in the elements of poetry and romance ; that its bards must of necessity linger over the classic ruins of other lands; and draw their sketches of character from foreign sources, and paint Nature under the soft beauty of an Eastern sky. On the contrary, New England is full of Romance....we have mountains pillaring a sky as blue as that which bends over classic Olympus; streams as bright and beautiful as those of Greece and Italy, and forests richer and nobler than those which of old were haunted by Sylph and Dryad.”
“When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit.”
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1807-1892
John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Although he received little formal education, he was an avid reader who studied his father's six books on Quakerism until their teachings became the foundation of his ideology. Whittier was heavily influenced by the doctrines of his religion, particularly its stress on humanitarianism, compassion, and social responsibility.
Whittier produced two collections of antislavery poetry: Poems Written during the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, between 1830 and 1838 and Voices of Freedom (1846). He was an elector in the presidential election of 1860 and of 1864, voting for Abraham Lincoln both times.
The passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 ended both slavery and his public cause, so Whittier turned to other forms of poetry for the remainder of his life.