Author Profile
Bayard Taylor
1825 – 1878 • American • Journalist
38
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 38 quotesPeople can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.— Bayard Taylor
I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!— Bayard Taylor
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.— Bayard Taylor