Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Gratitude, Sweet, Heart

• Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where she loves to lead. What various feelings come from days gone by! What tears from far-off sources dim the eye! Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play, And melodies swell, pause, and melt away, Mind how at every touch, at every tone, A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Sweet, Eye

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Miscellaneous poems: Collection of 1846. Last fruit off an old tree. Dry sticks. Additional poems. Criticisms: Idyls of Theocritus. Poems of Catullus. Francesco Petrarca”, p.222

• The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Eye, Criticism, Sides

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.121

• Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. 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

  Memories, Eye, Night

  'Rose Aylmer' (1806)

• Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Eye, Men, Snow

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.154

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