The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race – a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes. Bayard Taylor Read Quote
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo. Bayard Taylor Read Quote
A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, ‘a Pike County man,’ was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into ‘a Pike.’ Bayard Taylor Read Quote
The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian. Bayard Taylor Read Quote
The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado. Bayard Taylor Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Bayard Taylor Read Quote
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it. Bayard Taylor Read Quote
People can’t see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler. Bayard Taylor Read Quote
