Lord Byron was the last of the canonized Romantic poets. He was the first "rockstar" of poetry as well as a lady's man. I am supposed to be writing a paper about him right now but for some reason I would rather blog about him. His words and works were poignant and witty, making him a very quotable person. Here are some of his more humorous quotes:
- Absence - that common cure of love.
- I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
- Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
- (In regards to the crude language that he used in one of his writings & "tooled" means to have sex) It may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?
- I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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