Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Quotes about heart

Letitia Elizabeth Landon was English poet and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on heart.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon: 1570 quotes11 likes

“Who shall say
The love of genius is a common thing,
Such as the many feel—half selfishness,
Half vanity?—for genius is divine,
And, like a god, doth turn its dwelling-place
Into a temple; and the heart redeem'd
By its fine influence is immortal shrine
For love's divinity.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A Summer Evening’s Tale
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“Mysterious enthusiasm, Love!
The heart's supremest power;—which doth combine
Within itself religion, poetry,
And heroism.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Translations, From the French

“Hope is love's happiness, but not its life;—
How many hearts have nourished a vain flame
In silence and in secret, though they knew
They fed the scorching fire that would consume them!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Improvisatrice (1824)

“The shadow of the church falls o'er the ground,
Hallowing its place of rest; and here the dead
Slumber, where all religious impulses,
And sad and holy feelings, angel like,
Make the spot sacred with themselves, and wake
Those sorrowful emotions in the heart
Which purify it, like a temple meet
For an unearthly presence. Life, vain Life,
The bitter and the worthless, wherefore here
Do thy remembrances intrude?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“But as old tradition tells,
There are other, deeper, spells
In the lone and mystic wells —
Spells of strange wild augury
Few have had the heart to try.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette, 1824