“Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.” NeedsSoulReadingNovelConvictionEmploymentImmortalCakeGardeningOccasionalNeedlesVisitingSustenanceSpongesImmortal Soul Book:Woman and her Wishes, etc. ... Second edition, with an appendix Source: Woman and her Wishes, etc. ... Second edition, with an appendix
“Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.” IdeasShowsLightNovelOrdinaryHarmonyRaisedPleasantImmortalAcceptableDelightfulStatuesHarmoniousIngeniousImmortal Life Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.” StoriesHumanitySocialFictionNovelCrazyTasteLongingRationalImmortalShort StoryHeroismBehaviourObstinacyPortraiture Book:Stories Source: Stories