Lord Byron
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 January 1788
real reality adoration
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
sleep reality two
Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality.
reading book book-reading
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
venice earth masque
Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.
beautiful sea-breeze wind
My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!
believe religion miserable
I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
christian religion done
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
men oracles conscience
Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
shoes charity misery
I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
thinking
It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
lying women wells
Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
heart roving absence
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
curiosity vices lows
That low vice, curiosity!
mistake people risk
A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.