“There is a gloom in deep love as in deep water; there is a silence in…” — Walter Savage Landor | V2Melody

“There is a gloom in deep love as in deep water; there is a silence in it which suspends the foot.”

Evoking the solemn stillness that attends profound affection · Imaginary Conversations

Walter Savage Landor

About Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor

30 January 1775–17 September 1864

Walter Savage Landor was born on 30 January 1775 at Ipsley Court, near Warwick, England, into circumstances of comfort, cultivation, and inherited expectation. His father, Walter Landor, was a physician of substantial means and social standing; his mother, Elizabeth Savage, came from a family whose name and property…

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“The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.”

Aging as a gradual, gentle release · Conversation / essay (as commonly attributed)

“If thou lovest Glory, thou must trust her truth. She followeth him who doth not turn and gaze after her.”

Suggesting that true glory comes to those who do not chase it · Imaginary Conversations

“It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest; I should for ever dream of you.”

A wish for eternal dreaming · Conversation / essay (as commonly attributed)