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.
Цитаты Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор
„Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.“
— Walter Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia
„What is reading but silent conversation.“
— Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations
„When a cat flatters... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.“
— Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations
„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.
„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.
„Ah what avails the sceptered race,
Ah what the form divine!“
— Walter Savage Landor
Rose Aylmer (1806).
„Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.“
— Walter Savage Landor
"Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney".
