Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- Lord Byron
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Quotes by Lord Byron 5
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, 1788-1824, British poet acclaimed as one of the leading figures of the romantic movement. The "Byronic hero"- lonely, rebellious, and brooding- first appeared in Manfred (1817). Among his other works are Childe Harold (1812-1818), The Prisoner of Chillon (1816), and the epic satire Don Juan (1819-1824). Byron was notorious for his love affairs and unconventional lifestyle. He died while working to secure Greek independence from the Turks.
But I hate things all fiction . . . there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric- and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem- and in my esteem age is not estimable.
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, & what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, & what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way;- all this comes of Authorship.
I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
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