Walter Savage Landor
British poet and essayist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
—Walter Savage Landor, British essayist and poet, Imaginary Conversations, 1853
Posted on July 7, 1998 at 8:59 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
—Walter Savage Landor, British poet and essayist, Imaginary Conversations, 1853
Posted on July 1, 1998 at 6:40 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
—Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, 1824
Posted on December 19, 2002 at 2:12 PM
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