Walter Savage Landor citáty

Walter Savage Landor byl anglický básník.

✵ 30. leden 1775 – 17. září 1864
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Walter Savage Landor citáty a výroky

„Advokátka Bartonů!“

Walter Savage Landor

o Elizabethě Gaskellové
[(en) Paraclete of the Bartons !]
Zdroj: [Landor, Walter Savage, 1876, The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Miscellaneous poems: Collection of 1846. Last fruit off an old tree. Dry sticks. Additional poems. Criticisms: Idyls of Theocritus. Poems of Catullus. Francesco Petrarca, Chapman and Hall, 256, angličtina]

„Sonety jsou vřelé a hřmotné, je v nich mnoho shrnutí, málo jemnosti, jako malinová marmeláda bez smetany, bez kůrky, bez chleba.“

Walter Savage Landor

o Shakespearovi
Zdroj: [Shaw, Karl, 2007, To je skandál!, Metafora, 1, 83]

Walter Savage Landor: Citáty anglicky

“What is reading but silent conversation.”

Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations

Zdroj: Imaginary Conversations

“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.”

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.”

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.

“Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,
Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,
Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,
No man hath walked along our roads with step
So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue
So varied in discourse.”

Walter Savage Landor

To Robert Browning (1846). Compare: "Nor sequent centuries could hit/ Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit", Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day and Other Pieces, Solution.

“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 Imaginary Conversations

"Chesterfield and Chatham".
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829)

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

Walter Savage Landor

I Strove with None (1853). The work is identified in Bartlett's Quotations, 10th edition (1919) as Dying Speech of an old Philosopher.
Quoted in W. Somerset Maugham: The Razor's Edge, The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia, 1944, p. 161.

“Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.”

Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations

"Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney".
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829)

“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.”

Walter Savage Landor

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

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