"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
"But 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."
3 likes
Source: Letter to John Murray from Venice, April 2 1817, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 5 (1976)
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Lord Byron
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar."
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
"When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World."
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."
"The heart will break, but broken live on."