Lord Byron — "What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; present bliss is all we know."
What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; present bliss is all we know.
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"I have a great contempt for all critics, and I never read their reviews."
"I have a great passion for the sea, and I would rather live on a ship than on land."
"Proud Wellington, with eagle beak so curled, That nose, the hook where he suspends the world!"
"What is hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."
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About Lord Byron (1788-1824)
English Romantic poet whose Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-18) and Don Juan (1819-24) made him a continent-wide celebrity; died at Missolonghi fighting for Greek independence. Closely associated with Percy Bysshe Shelley (Geneva summer companion and fellow second-generation Romantic) and John Keats (younger Romantic Byron mocked but later admired). For an intellectual contrast, see William Wordsworth, Lake Poet of pious nature-worship — Byron's mockery of 'the Lakers' Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey runs through Don Juan as a sustained literary feud across hundreds of stanzas. The cleanest Romantic-internal split between sincere-pastoral and cynical-worldly poetics.