Walter Savage Landor Quotes about Life

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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Walter Savage Landor

Life, Nature, Future

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

Walter Savage Landor

Life, Lying, Path

Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.225

Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.

Walter Savage Landor

Life, Life Is, Sigh

Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.300

Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where she loves to lead. What various feelings come from days gone by! What tears from far-off sources dim the eye! Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play, And melodies swell, pause, and melt away, Mind how at every touch, at every tone, A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone.

Walter Savage Landor

Life, Sweet, Eye

Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Miscellaneous poems: Collection of 1846. Last fruit off an old tree. Dry sticks. Additional poems. Criticisms: Idyls of Theocritus. Poems of Catullus. Francesco Petrarca”, p.222