Savage Landor

Famous quotes containing the words savage landor, savage and/or landor:

    “Stand close around,ye Stygian set,
    With Dirce in one boat convey’d,
    Or Charon, seeing, may forget
    That he is old, and she a shade.”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    “The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas’ mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.
    Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.”
    —Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)

    “For, surely, surely, where
    Your voice and graces are,
    Nothing of death can any feel or know.”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)