Quotes by Landor, Walter Savage

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

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squan >>

We talk on principal, but act on motivation. >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of litera >>

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it >>

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. >>

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.

Landor, Walter Savage