Famous Quotes | As to “Don Juan,” confess...

As to “Don Juan,” confess ... that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; 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? - George Gordon Noel Byron
Attribution: George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), British poet. Letter, October 26, 1819, written from Venice. Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 6, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (1976).

Categories: Poetry And Poets

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