Byron Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Byron Byron Great Children Great poet Lord Lord Byron Poet Poet Soon Poetry Reflection
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”… — Richard S. Hartmetz Copy Share Image
I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“Byron wrote his shortest and most eloquent poem as a testament to a titled woman who had taken leave of her husband for a… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers. — Irving Bacheller Copy Share Image
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children. — Alphonse Daudet Copy Share Image
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D.C. at another time reading in a paper where the U.S. gives Byron… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“Byron listened quietly, thinking to himself how people everywhere are about the same, but that it did seem that in a small town, where… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Young Byron thundered on. 'Is there not blood enough on your penal code, that more must be poured forth to ascend to Heaven and… — S.K. Rizzolo Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Id love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath. — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“You're not beautiful," he said in a quiet statement that made her brow knit. "Why do you look beautiful when you're not?” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have all of… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
