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Walter Savage Landor
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“But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue... Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) first seen 1798 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gebir, Book I (1798). Compare: "Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed/ Mysterious union with his native sea", William Wordsworth, The Excursion (1814), Book iv. Wordsworth's prompted Landor to comment, "Poor shell! …
“Past are three summers since she first beheld The ocean; all around the child await Some exclamation of amazement here. She coldly said, her long-lasht eyes abased, Is this the mighty ocean? is this all? That wondrous soul Charoba once possest,— Capacious, then, as earth or heaven could hold, Soul discontented with capacity,— Is gone (I fear) forever. Need I say She was enchanted by the wicked spells Of Gebir, whom with lust of power inflamed The western winds have landed on our coast? I since have watcht her in lone retreat, Have heard her sigh and soften out the name.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) first seen 1798 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gebir, Book I (1798). It is reported that "these lines were specially singled out for admiration by Shelley, Humphrey Davy, Scott, and many remarkable men"; Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), citing Forste…
“Ah what avails the sceptered race, Ah what the form divine!”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) first seen 1806 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rose Aylmer (1806).
“Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) first seen 1806 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rose Aylmer (1806).
“'Tis verse that gives Immortal youth to mortal maids.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When we play the fool, how wide The theatre expands! beside, How long the audience sits before us! How many prompters! what a chorus!”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Plays, st. 2 (1846).
“There is delight in singing, though none hear Beside the singer.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Robert Browning (1846).
“Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's, Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walked along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Robert Browning (1846). Compare: "Nor sequent centuries could hit/ Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit", Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day and Other Pieces, Solution.
“The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Robert Browning (1846).
“I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art. I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) first seen 1853 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I Strove with None (1853). The work is identified in Bartlett's Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) as Dying Speech of an old Philosopher.
“Around the child bend all the three Sweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity. Around the man bend other faces; Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dry Sticks, Different Graces (1858).
“The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 8.
“I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a Book which to say nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 33.
“Wearers of rings and chains! Pray do not take the pains To set me right. In vain my faults ye quote; I write as others wrote On Sunium’s hight.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The last Fruit of an old Tree, Epigram cvi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Stand close around, ye Stygian set, with Dirce in the boat conveyed, Lest Charon, seeing her, forget, That he is old and she a shade.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) first seen 1831 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epitaph on Dirce. George Orwell called it 'one of the best epitaphs in English – If I were a woman it would be my favourite epitaph – it would be the one I should like to have for myself." Quoted in It is What I Think, …
“There are no fields of amaranth on this side of the grave: there are no voices, O Rhodopè! that are not soon mute, however tuneful: there is no name, with whatever emphasis of passionate love repeated, of which the echo is not faint at last.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must not indulge in unfavourable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend: such nails are then thrown into the dust or into the furnace.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Little men in lofty places, who throw long shadows, because our sun is setting.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,-- Therefore on him no speech! And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) said by 1864 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) said by 1864 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art. I warm'd both hands against the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) said by 1864 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source