Poetry Quote by Tilar Mazzeo

“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

“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

“I wasn’t sure whether he was a grad student, poet, actor, stripper, or brilliant combination of all those things. But the man knew Lord…

— Chloe Neill

Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over.…

— Virginia Woolf

...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite…

— Christopher Moore

“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

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“…   not my own opinion, but my wife’s: Yesterday, when weary with writing, I was called to supper, and a salad I had…

— Johannes Kepler

“We have the same symptoms as tuberculosis, especially in the eyes of the Romantic Poets. Pale, tired, coughing up blood.” “That’s romantic?” I had…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“What we eat is a poem.”

— Anthony Doerr

“poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?”

— Cecil Day-Lewis