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Walter Savage Landor Writer

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: England
  • Born: Jan 30, 1775
  • Died: Sep 17, 1864

Walter Savage Landor was an English writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylmer, but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity. As remarkable as his work was, it was equalled by his rumbustious character and lively temperament.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

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.