Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylorwas an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth11 January 1825
CityKennett Square, PA
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful stars healing
The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.
daring
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
perseverance hard-work excellence
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
humility pride true-humility
Love's humility is love's true pride.
athlete race sculpture
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
beautiful flower scotland
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
prayer deeds virtuous
And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
sublime realization world
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
people observation
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
eccentricity
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
ocean glee swelling
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
running ocean space
We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
pain sea wind
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
rain lap sap
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.