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Walter Savage Landor

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


— Walter Savage Landor


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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.


— Walter Savage Landor


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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 weight of prose.


— Walter Savage Landor


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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.


— Walter Savage Landor


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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.


— Walter Savage Landor


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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.


— Walter Savage Landor


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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.


— Walter Savage Landor


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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.


— Walter Savage Landor


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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.


— Walter Savage Landor


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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.


— Walter Savage Landor


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About Walter Savage Landor

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Did you know about Walter Savage Landor?

Landor found Latin useful for expressing things that might otherwise have been “indecent or unattractive” as he put it and as a cover for libellous material. Equally sensitive are his “domestic” poems about his sister and his children. By a succession of bizarre actions he was successively thrown out of Rugby Oxford and from time to time from the family home.

Walter Savage Landor (30 January 1775 – 17 September 1864) was 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.

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