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Walter Savage Landor

Geburtstag: 30. Januar 1775
Todesdatum: 17. September 1864

Walter Savage Landor war ein englischer Dichter und Schriftsteller.

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„Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.“

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— Walter Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia

„What is reading but silent conversation.“

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— Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations

„When a cat flatters... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.“

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— Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations

„Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend: such nails are then thrown into the dust or into the furnace.“

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— Walter Savage Landor
"Cromwell and Noble".

„We must not indulge in unfavourable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.“

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— Walter Savage Landor
"Barrow and Newton".

„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.“

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— Walter Savage Landor
"Chesterfield and Chatham".

„Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes
May weep, but never see,
A night of memories and of sighs
I consecrate to thee.“

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— Walter Savage Landor
Rose Aylmer (1806).

„Ah what avails the sceptered race,
Ah what the form divine!“

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— Walter Savage Landor
Rose Aylmer (1806).

„Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.“

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— Walter Savage Landor
"Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney".

„When we play the fool, how wide
The theatre expands! beside,
How long the audience sits before us!
How many prompters! what a chorus!“

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— Walter Savage Landor
Plays, st. 2 (1846).

„The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.“

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— Walter Savage Landor
To Robert Browning (1846).

„Wearers of rings and chains!
Pray do not take the pains
To set me right.
In vain my faults ye quote;
I write as others wrote
On Sunium’s hight.“

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— Walter Savage Landor
The last Fruit of an old Tree, Epigram cvi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

„But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue...
Shake one, and it awakens; then apply
Its polished lips to your attentive ear,
And it remembers its august abodes,
And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.“

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— Walter Savage Landor
Gebir, Book I (1798). Compare: "Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed/ Mysterious union with his native sea", William Wordsworth, The Excursion (1814), Book iv. Wordsworth's prompted Landor to comment, "Poor shell! that Wordsworth so pounded and flattened in his marsh it no longer had the hoarseness of a sea, but of a hospital", Walter Savage Landor, Letter to John Forster.

„Stand close around, ye Stygian set,
with Dirce in the boat conveyed,
Lest Charon, seeing her, forget,
That he is old and she a shade.“

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— Walter Savage Landor
Epitaph on Dirce - George Orwell called it 'one of the best epitaphs in English - If I were a woman it would be my favourite epitaph-it would be the one I should like to have for myself." - quoted in Orwell:Collected Works, It is What I Think, p. 45.