264 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

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.

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

God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose’s thorns when we gather it; and the other’s when we have had it for some time.

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm’d both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified’, and raised into immortal life by harmony.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God’s great and the king’s great.

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.