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Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable less ordinary, pleasant novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Ordinary
Harmonious
Shows
Poetry
Delightful
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Ones
Acceptable
Music
Novel
Immortal
Ideas
Beauty
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Words
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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
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