Bayard taylor

Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.

The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.

People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.

True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling....

I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

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.

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my...