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
greatness men littles
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
philosopher fortune
A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
envy morality speak
Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
flower cities soul
The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
rocks world ascending
The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.
appreciation men would-be
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
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.
miserable found persons
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
sound wells reasonable
We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
philosophy school exercise
All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
flower too-much fruit
The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.
love heart forever
The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
easy few leading life within
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.