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Walter Savage Landor Quotes about Poetry

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.149

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

Walter Savage Landor (1834). “Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby and Silas Gough, Clerk: Before the Worshipful Sir Thomas Lucy, Knight, Touching Deer-stealing on the 19th Day of September in the Year of Grace 1582, Now First Published from Original Papers”, p.177