I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.
A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.
Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!
Close thy Byron ; open thy Goethe .