Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“ Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can;… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
