Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylorwas an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth11 January 1825
CityKennett Square, PA
CountryUnited States of America
people observation
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
people different firsts
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
people
The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
people success
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
charm verses wooing
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
perfection unattainable aim
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
years poet process
The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
ignorance learning fire
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
home perfect mountain
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
kissing granted stolen
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
atmosphere world london
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
sublime realization world
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
cities two baltimore
Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
athlete race sculpture
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.