Byron Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

— John Herschel

“(Quoting Goethe :) "We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the…

— James Howe

“Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte. (More recent poets put a lot of water in the ink.) -- Goethe: Aus Makariens Archiv.…

— Anonymous

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

— Charles Lamb

I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Eighteenth-century German poet and philosopher, Wolfgang Von Goethe wrote: Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always…

— Verusha Singh

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

— Isaac D'Israeli

“It's that wounded-poet crap, that soul-pain shit, that too-much-of-a-tortured-genius-to-wash bollocks. Brush your teeth, you little bastard. You're not fucking Byron.”

— Robert Galbraith

“A Blessing on the Poets Patient earth-digger, impatient fire-maker, Hungry word-taker and roving sound-lover, Sharer and saver, muser and acher, You who are open…

— Annie Finch

“Exactly. We know that the great Goethe carried a copy of Spinoza’s Ethics in his pocket for a year. Imagine that—an entire year! And…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Everywhere the poems open.”

— Mary Kinzie

“Bear patiently your exile and the dryness of your mind. The time will come when I will make you forget these painful moments and…

— Thomas à Kempis