16 Bayard Taylor Quotes

Bayard Taylor quotes

1. Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.

2. They sang of love, and not of fame; Forgot was Britain's glory; Each heart recalled a different name, But all sang Annie Lawrie.

3. The bravest are the tenderest,- The loving are the daring.

4. Shelved round us lie The mummied authors.

1. There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!

2. So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.

3. The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

4. To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

5. But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.

6. Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.

7. Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

8. Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.

9. London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

10. To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.

11. Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.

12. In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.