Landor

Famous quotes containing the word landor:

    Lately our poets loiter’d in green lanes,
    Content to catch the ballads of the plains;
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    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.
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    Death stands above me, whispering low
    I know not what into my ear;
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)