"Janus am I; oldest of potentates! Forward I look and backward and below I count—as god of avenues and gates— The years that through my portals come and go. I block the roads and drift the fields with snow, I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen; My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow, My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written for the Children's Almanac.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Deity
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Deity
121 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Deity →
Related Quotes
"Gods are like that. It isn’t enough for them to run everything. They want to be famous, too."
"Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."
"It was lately suggested to me, by a man with longer experience of the gods than I can rightly imagine, that the reaso…"
"Junctæque Nymphis Gratiæ decentes."
"Di me tuentur."
"Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out o…"
"Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo."
"Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus."
"Men change their gods, and when they have changed them often enough they cease to fear their power."
"Much of the power of biblical preaching from Moses to the time of the Exile comes from its stark either-or choice bet…"