“social life is fill’d
With doubts and vain aspirings; solitude,
When the imagination is dethroned,
Is turned to weariness.”
A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon785
English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Dryden
Literary Essays, vol. III (1870-1890)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Nothing Will Die (1830)
Context: Nothing will die;
All things will change
Thro’ eternity.
‘Tis the world’s winter;
Autumn and summer
Are gone long ago;
Earth is dry to the centre,
But spring, a new comer,
A spring rich and strange,
Shall make the winds blow
Round and round,
Thro’ and thro’,
Here and there,
Till the air
And the ground
Shall be fill’d with life anew.
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker
"Isak Borg" (Victor Sjöström) in Wild Strawberries (1957).
Films
Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois
Commonly misquoted, converted to imperative mood, as "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler".
Walden (1854)
“That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept