Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate… — 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
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely… — 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 Image
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
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 Image
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
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 Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
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 Image
