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 Бродский185
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
„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, Imaginary Conversations
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829), "Chesterfield and Chatham".
„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, Imaginary Conversations
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829), "Barrow and Newton".
„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, Imaginary Conversations
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829), "Cromwell and Noble".
„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, Imaginary Conversations
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829), "Aesop and Rhodopè", I.
„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
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! that Wordsworth so pounded and flattened in his marsh it no longer had the hoarseness of a sea, but of a hospital", Walter Savage Landor, Letter to John Forster.
„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.
