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
children childhood children-love
Childhood, whose very happiness is love.
book luxury lovers
a preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical ...
first-love borders saying-too-much
Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.
littles love-making little-love
Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing ...
love-is silence sanctity
... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
attachment our-love return
Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.
causes physicians lovers
The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves ...
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.
memories feelings music-love
We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
confidence security
Confidence is its own security.
fame tombs
A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.
general people whatever
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
elevates future human life looks low nature occupied
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
buds fragrant harvest honey whose yield
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.