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• Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hands, Weight, Bears

  'Imaginary Conversations' 'Archdeacon Hare and Walter Landor' in 'The Last Fruit off an Old Tree' (1853)

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• 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

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• Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Taken, Men, Done

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.487

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• As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Obscurity, Shells, Pearls

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.55

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• Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Daughter, Gratitude, Justice

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”

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• It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Looks, Easy, Difficulty

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.211

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• The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.

  Walter Savage Landor

  "Works: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations".

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• The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Death, Firsts, Pillow

  Walter Savage Landor (1898). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”

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• It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Law, Bird

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.166

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• This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Dream, Fall, Light

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”

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• No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Broken

  Walter Savage Landor (1969). “Poems”

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• The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Past, Notes, Music Is

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.19

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• Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Perseverance, Men, Littles

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”

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• How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Friends, Delight, Absence

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.151

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• To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Steps, Gone, Arms

  Walter Savage Landor (1898). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”

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• Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Political, Goats

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.13

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• Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Procrastination, Practice, Hatred

  Walter Savage Landor (1868). “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.5

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• Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Character, Matter, Form

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• 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

  Fall, Autumn, Years

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.318

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• 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

  Failure, Failing, Mishaps

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.311

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• When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

  Walter Savage Landor

  Play, Long, Theatre

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.665

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• Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Ordinary, Giants, Body

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

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• We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Philosophy, Light, May

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.444

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• I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Thinking, Joy, Duration

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• I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Strife, Quarrels

  "Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher" l. 1 (1853)

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