Lord Byron Quotes


For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.


Citations

Byron, George Gordon. "The Dream." The Works of Lord Byron: Poetry, edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge, vol. 4, John Murray, 1901, p. 33.

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Lord Byron
Lord Byron
  • Born: January 22, 1788
  • Died: April 19, 1824
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Poet

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS known simply as Lord Byron, was an English peer, who was a poet and politician. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement and is regarded as one of the greatest English poets. He remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.