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Poet, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "Cain", "Lara", galt außerhalb Englands als "schillernde Persönlichkeit" mit großem Einfluß (England, 1788 - 1824).

Lord George Gordon Byron · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Lord George Gordon Byron wäre heute 237 Jahre, 2 Monate, 12 Tage oder 86.634 Tage alt.

Geboren am 22.01.1788 in London
Gestorben am 19.04.1824 in Missolunghi
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann

• His heart was one of those which most enamour us, Wax to receive, and marble to retain.

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• His love was passion's essence:-as a tree On fire by lightning, with ethereal flame Kindled he was, and blasted.

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• How beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in its action and itself! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride.

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• I am ashes where once I was fire.

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• I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

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• I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence-this may look like affectation-but it is my real opinion-it is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

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• I feel my immortality oversweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever.

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• I hate things all fiction . . . there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

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• I have looked out In the vast desolate night in search of him; And when I saw gigantic shadows in The umbrage of the walls of Eden, chequered By the far-flashing of the cherubs' swords, I watched for what I thought his coming: for With fear rose longing in my heart to know What 'twas which shook us all-but nothing came.

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• I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee.

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• I knew it was love, and I felt it was glory.

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• I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world.

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• I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.

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• I prefer the talents of action - of war - of the senate - or even of science - to all the speculations of those mere dreamers of another existence.

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• I stood Among them, but not of them; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

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• I'll publish, right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

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• I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted; time will doubt of Rome.

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• If from society we learn to live, it is solitude should teach us how to die.

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• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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• If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears.

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