Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор цитаты
Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор
Дата рождения: 30. Январь 1775
Дата смерти: 17. Сентябрь 1864
Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор — английский поэт писавший с одинаковым совершенством по-английски и по-латыни. Дядя художника Генри Сэвиджа Лэндора.
Подобные авторы
Джефри Чосер14
английский поэт
Иосиф Александрович Бродский176
российский и американский поэт, лауреат Нобелевской премии …
Генри Бокль11
английский историк, философ, шахматист
Джон Рёскин24
английский писатель, художник, теоретик искусства, литерату…
Роберт Браунинг17
английский поэт и драматургЦитаты Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор
„What is reading but silent conversation.“
— Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations
„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
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 Orwell:Collected Works, It is What I Think, p. 45.
„There is delight in singing, though none hear
Beside the singer.“
— Walter Savage Landor
To Robert Browning (1846).
„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
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 33.
„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
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 8.
„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
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.
„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
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 Forster, Life of Landor, vol. i. p. 95.
