Walter Landor
Walter Landor
Walter Landor, born Walter Landauer in 1913 in Munich, Germany, was a brand designer and the founder of Landor Associates. He was an acclaimed designer and a pioneer of branding and consumer research techniques widely used to this day. Landor Associates, the company he founded in 1941, has offices around the world...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 January 1775
echo emphasis faint fields however love passionate side soon whatever
There are no fields of amaranth on this side of the grave: there are no voices, O Rhodope! that are not soon mute, however tuneful: there is no name, with whatever emphasis of passionate love repeated, of which the echo is not faint at last.
alive along hath inquiring man roads since step varied walked
Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue/ So varied in discourse.
both depart fire hands nature next none ready worth
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart
gone loved
I loved him not; and yet now he is gone / I feel I am alone.
act interest talk
We talk on principle, but we act on interest
happiness happy longer soon wish
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
child overflow tears thou thy
Child of a day, thou knowest not / The tears that overflow thy urn.
earth fourth george god good heard mortal reckoned
George the First was always reckoned / Vile, but viler George the Second; / And what mortal ever heard / Any good of George the Third? / When from earth the Fourth descended/ God be praised, the Georges ended!
fear flattery language offending pleasing truth
The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional