Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1865 – 26 December 1924) was an English painter, explorer, writer and anthropologist, born in Florence. His grandfather was the poet and writer Walter Savage Landor, who himself lived for long periods in Florence.
Read more about Arnold Henry Savage Landor: Early Life and Training, First Expedition To America, and The Far East, Later Travels, Inventions, Later Years, Works
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“Stand close around,ye Stygian set,
With Dirce in one boat convey’d,
Or Charon, seeing, may forget
That he is old, and she a shade.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
“Who ordered, that their longing’s fire
Should be, as soon as kindled, cooled?
Who renders vain their deep desire?—
A God, a God their severance ruled!
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
“You know, it’s a savage country, really. That’s the second one they shot in twenty years. It’s uncivilized—shooting people of substance.”
—David Webb Peoples, screenwriter. English Bob (Richard Harris)
“I strove with none, for none was worth my strife:
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art:”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)