"Lord Byron is great only as a poet; as soon as he reflects, he is a child."
— Lord Byron

January 1, 1970

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, said in conversation (18 January 1825) with Johann Peter Eckermann, quoted in Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe (1836).