Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth14 August 1802
block believe mean
We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.
thinking letters doe
I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.
summer flower eye
Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
heart fate winning
And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!
feelings absence meetings
Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.
names mind armor
Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.
love art flower
Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.
grief heart selfishness
How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.
courage fearless way
The fearless make their own way ...
memories feelings music-love
We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
talking tears relief
who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?
misery paint
There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness ...
sweet kindness care
Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.
life pain passion
What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.