Byron Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A person with a melancholy temperament had been fated with both an awful burden and what Byron called “a fearful gift.” The burden was…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

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

“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

“Cynical, self-deprecating, affected, indiscriminate, patronizing, immature, as sloppy intellectually as he was with his desk, fickle, vain, virile, brooding, pedantic, philandering...in short, Byronic, Byronic,…

— Laura Elizabeth Woollett

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

— Kenneth Koch

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the…

— Mark Twain

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

“When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence”

— John F. Kennedy

“I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is…

— Harold Bloom

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami