Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landorwas an English writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylmer, but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity. As remarkable as his work was, it was equalled by his rumbustious character and lively temperament...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 January 1775
compassion power intemperance
Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
wise opinion knows
We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.
money pay wealth
The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.
life lying path
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
life noon decline
In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
happiness men joy
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
men kwanzaa nails
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
moving writing fields
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
greatness
Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
care noise affection
We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
friendship sun righteousness
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
daughter gratitude justice
Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
heart reflection melancholy
There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.
light ideas immortal-life
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.