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Lord Byron Quotes (1788-1824)
Poet, Mathematician
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About Lord Byron
George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.
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“Friendship is Love without wings.”
“Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!”
“The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.”
“The power of thought,—the magic of the mind!”
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Lord Byron on Love 11 quotes
“Who loves, raves—'tis youth's frenzy—but the cure Is bitterer still.”
Lord Byron on Poetry about love 10 quotes
“Who loves, raves—'tis youth's frenzy—but the cure Is bitterer still.”
Lord Byron on Ageing 8 quotes
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“Heaven gives its favourites — early death.”
Lord Byron on Time 7 quotes
“Spared and blessed by Time, Looking tranquility.”
Lord Byron on Courtship 7 quotes
“And whispering, "I will ne'er consent"—consented.”
Lord Byron on Man 6 quotes
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“Hot from the hands promiscuously applied, Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.”
Lord Byron on Oceans 6 quotes
“Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.”
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Lord Byron on William Shakespeare 3 quotes
“Know the same favour which the former knew, A shrine for Shakspeare—worthy him and you? Yes—it shall be—the magic of that name Defies the scythe of time, the torch of flame.”
Lord Byron on Alexander Pope 2 quotes
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“While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air.”
Lord Byron on Walter Scott 2 quotes
“And think'st thou, Scott! by vain conceit perchance,
On public taste to foist thy stale romance,
Though Murray with his Miller may combine
To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line?”
Lord Byron on John Keats 2 quotes
“My indignation at Mr. Keats's depreciation of Pope has hardly permitted me to do justice to his own genius, which, malgre all the fantastic fopperies of his style, was undoubtedly of great promise. His fragment of Hyperion seems actually inspired by the Titans, and is as sublime as Aeschylus. He is a loss to our literature.”
Lord Byron on William Thomas Beckford
“The great Apostle of Paederasty.”
Lord Byron on Martial
Lord Byron on Petrarch
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Lord Byron 2 quotes
“Lord Byron is great only as a poet; as soon as he reflects, he is a child.”
Emma Goldman on Lord Byron
“Emotional sorrow has inspired many sublime lyrics, much profound insight and poetic exultation of a Byron, Shelley, Heine, and their kind.”
William Hazlitt on Lord Byron 2 quotes
“Lord Byron makes man after his own image, woman after his own heart; the one is a capricious tyrant, the other a yielding slave.”
Leigh Hunt on Lord Byron
“In a room at the end of the garden to this house was a magnificent rocking-horse, which a friend had given my little boy; and Lord Byron, with a childish glee becoming a poet, would ride upon it. Ah! why did he ever ride his Pegasus to less advantage?”
Katherine Kernberger on Lord Byron
“The list of writers, artists, and composers who were directly inspired by Byron's life and poetry is almost without peer; it includes Hector Berlioz, Alexander Pushkin, J. M. W. Turner, Robert Schumann, Victor Hugo, Alfred-Victor de Vigny, Alfred de Musset, Giuseppe Verdi, Gaetano Donizetti, Franz Liszt, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Gioacchino Rossini, Charles Baudelaire, and Virgil Thomson. Not surprisingly, most of these influenced by Byron were themselves intensely emotional and inclined toward the Romantic.”
John Keats on Lord Byron
“You speak of Lord Byron and me — there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees — I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay on Lord Byron 2 quotes
“From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife.”
Friedrich Nietzsche on Lord Byron
“Tragedy of childhood. Not infrequently, noble-minded and ambitious men have to endure their harshest struggle in childhood, perhaps by having to assert their characters against a low-minded father, who is devoted to pretense and mendacity, or by living, like Lord Byron, in continual struggle with a childish and wrathful mother. If one has experienced such struggles, for the rest of his life he will never get over knowing who has been in reality his greatest and most dangerous enemy.”
About Lord Byron
George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.