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
tree states old-trees
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
fall firsts genius
Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.
wise existence whole
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
differences rose thorns
God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it; and the other's when we have had it for some time.
sky rainbow shining
I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.
dance heart dancing
Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
eye criticism sides
The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
fall men names
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
compassion suffering cuckoos
Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
art nature next
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
married should matrimony
You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
sweet sacred idleness
How sweet and sacred idleness is!
soul doe eloquence
There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
future looks human-nature
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.