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
gratitude sweet eye
In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
wise doubt mind
Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.
hands weight bears
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
music art inspiration
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
oil childhood age
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
happiness happy-and-contented
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
motivational world sole
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
men vanity justice
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
heart understanding may
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
love anger flames
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
cat men flattery
Cats like men are flatterers.
art hands fire
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
reading silent conversation
What is reading but silent conversation?
library exploring
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.