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Poetry Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

9 Poetry quotes by Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor’s reputation rests on essays and criticism, yet these nine poems expose his classical leanings in a compact format. The verses echo the same erudition, now distilled into lyrical bursts.

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Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

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The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful…

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I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's…

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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate…

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“ Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next…

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Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too,…

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Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely…

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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

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Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom…

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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some…

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We talk on principle, but we act on interest

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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

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The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost…

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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

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We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can;…

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Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among…

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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

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