Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Walter Savage Landor, John Forster, Charles George Crump (1891). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men”

• Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Moving, Writing, Fields

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.125

• Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Writing, Profound, Looks

  'Imaginary Conversations' (1824) 'Southey and Porson'

• The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Wisdom, Writing

  Walter Savage Landor, John Forster, Charles George Crump (1891). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men”

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