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
world poet
Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
women foundation virtue
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
women littles matter
When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
dream fall light
This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again.
contentment way sometimes
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
broken may vases
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.
taken men sacred
Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.
writing profound looks
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.
reality self suffering
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
men excess poppies
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
justice delay injustice
Delay in justice is injustice.
giving sincere prudence
The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
god solitude audience
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
sweet men self
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.