Walter Savage Landor - Love Quotes

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Walter Savage Landor
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
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

Walter Savage Landor
There are no fields of amaranth on this side of the grave: there are no voices, O Rhodopè! that are not soon mute, however tuneful: there is no name, with whatever emphasis of passionate love repeated, of which the echo is not faint at last.

Walter Savage Landor
The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.

Walter Savage Landor
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.

Walter Savage Landor
The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.

Walter Savage Landor
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

Walter Savage Landor
It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.

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