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Walter Savage Landor was an English writer known for his poetry and prose. His works are renowned for their wit, satire, and profound philosophical insights, which have had a lasting impact on literature.

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Famous Walter Savage Landor Quotes

“Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks; and I am ready to depart.”

Art Death Poetry Nature

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone, I feel I am alone. I check’d him while he spoke; yet, could he speak, Alas! I would not check. For reasons not to love him once I sought, And wearied all my thought To vex myself and him: I now would give My love could he but live Who lately lived for me, and, when he found ’Twas vain, in holy ground He hid his face amid the shades of death. I waste for him my breath Who wasted his for me! but mine returns, And this lorn bosom burns With stifling heat, heaving it up in sleep, And waking me to weep Tears that had melted his soft heart: for years Wept he as bitter tears. Merciful God! such was his latest prayer, These may she never share. Quieter is his breath, his breast more cold, Than daisies in the mould, Where children spell, athwart the churchyard gate, His name and life’s brief date. Pray for him, gentle souls, whoe’er you be, And oh! pray too for me!”

Love Death Loss Grief Regret Grief And Loss Unrequited Love Transience Of Life

Author: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.”

Firsts Death Presses Pillow

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

“Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.”

Death Dying Life And Death

Book:Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

“I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”

Hands Death Fire Dying Ready

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.”

Age Death Quiet Aging

Author:Walter Savage Landor