• The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.

    Walter Savage Landor: The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
    Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.165