Savage Landor

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

    “O what a thing is age! Death without death’s quiet.”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    “Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “My slumber broken and my doublet torn,
    I find the laurel also bears a thorn.”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)