Poetry Quotes by Lord Byron

“We of the craft (poets) are all crazy.”

— Lord Byron

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

— Lord Byron

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

— Lord Byron

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

— Lord Byron

The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

— Lord Byron

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

— Lord Byron

That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane

— Lord Byron

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

— Lord Byron

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-…

— Lord Byron

Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life…

— Lord Byron

I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real…

— Lord Byron

May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And…

— Lord Byron

“When people say, 'I've told you fifty times,'        They mean to scold, and very often do;      When poets say, 'I've…

— Lord Byron

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes,…

— Lord Byron

“ We'll Go No More A-roving So, we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be…

— Lord Byron