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)

    “Twenty years hence my eyes may grow
    If not quite dim, yet rather so,
    Still yours from others they shall know”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    “I know what wages beauty gives,
    How hard a life her servant lives,
    Yet praise the winters gone:
    There is not a fool can call me friend,
    And I may dine at journey’s end
    With Landor and with Donne.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)