I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errorsand shortcomings are for a while lost sight ofin the amiable self assertion of youth.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: american
- Born: February 27, 1807
- Died: March 24, 1882