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
philosopher fortune
A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
afterlife belief life-is
Belief in the future life is the appetite of reason.
beauty flower light
God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.
practice falsehood
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
failure failing mishaps
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
greatness men hazards
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
philosophy light may
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
may treats great-writers
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.
space void headstone
Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
thinking joy duration
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.
miserable found persons
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
greatness men littles
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
mother hope
Hope is the mother of faith.
hate care fit
I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.