Great people: Lord Byron.

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron was born on January 22, 1788, in London, England.

He was an English writer. Lord Byron wrote in Romanticism style.

Hours of Idleness (1807), The Giaour (1813), and Lara, A Tale (1814) were his notable works.

Byron had wife and children.

He died on April 19, 1824, in Aetolia, Greece.

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred seven.

                                                                  Lord Byron.

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“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.”

“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ”

“Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange, Stranger than Fiction”

“Friendship is love without wings.”

“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/44407.Lord_Byron  

Famous people and their quotes. Part ninety five.

                                                                       Leon Battista Alberti.

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“Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.”

“Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.”

“The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/leon-battista-alberti-quotes 

Great people: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on August 28, 1749, in the Holy Roman Empire. His parents were Johann Caspar Goethe and Katharina Elisabeth Goethe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer. He studied in universities. His famous works: “Prometheus” (1772-1774), Faust (1774-1831), Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795), and etc.

Goethe had a wife and children.

He died on March 22, 1832, in the German Confederation.

Famous people and their quotes. Part sixty seven.

                                                Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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“Wisdom is found only in truth.”

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”

“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.”

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”

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https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/johann-wolfgang-von-goeth-quotes

Great people: Charlotte Brontё.

Charlotte Brontё was an English writer and poet. She was born on April 21, 1816, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. Her parents were Patrick Brontё and Maria Branwell. Also, Charlotte had two younger sisters, Emily and Anne.

She studied in schools.

Charlotte Brontё wrote her famous novel Jane Eyre in 1847. This book became famous and was translated many languages.

She married Arthur Bell Nicholls.

Brontё died on March 31, 1855, in Haworth, Yorkshire, England.

Great people: Homer.

 Homer (Ὅμηρος) was an author in ancient Greece. He was born in VIII century B. C. in Ionia.

Homer wrote about the Trojan War. He was the author of the Odyssey and the Iliad. Homer influenced ancient Greek literature and culture. He wrote about the warrior Achilles and the King Agamemnon.

Also, Homer was interested in philosophy.

His poems were translated many different languages.

Homer died in VIII century B. C. in Ionia.

Famous people and their quotes. Part fifty three.

                                                          Homer.

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“Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.”

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”

“Light is the task where many share the toil.”

Source of information:

https://www.biography.com/writer/homer 

Literature. Part sixty three.

                                       The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit.

This children's book was published in 1906.

The main characters of this novel are: father, mother, and three children. Father went to prison but it's wrong. He is a good man.

Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis are children. They are all different. Each of them has their own role.

Mother is a writer for children and a poet. She loves her family. Mom helps in hard situations.

Characters meet and find new friends during the novel.

The book has a happy ending. Father was acquitted and released from prison.

There are many different movies and theatrical performances about this story.

Great people: Robert Burns.

Robert Burns was born on January 25, 1759, in Scotland. He wrote a lot of poems and songs. Burns used English and Scots languages for his works.

He had a litarary movement Ramanticism. Robert Burns created many poems, such as: "A Red, Red Rose", "Auld Lang Syne", "Halloween", and others.

Also, Burns was known in his country as a farmer.

In 1787 Robert Burns married Jean Armour. They had five children.

He died on July 21, 1796, in Scotland.

Famous people and their quotes. Part thirty seven.

                                          Robert Burns.

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“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”

“Dare to be honest and fear no labor.”

“Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh, my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune”

“The best plans of men and mice often go awry.”

Source of information:

https://www.biography.com/writer/robert-burns

Poetry.

Poetry is one type of literature. Rhyme is very important there. Poems first appeared in ancient times. Writers wrote poetry by hands on paper. Verses are memorized easier than prose. Poetry has genres. Sad or happy, long or short. Poems are usually divided into couplets. The school teacher can ask to learn a poem.

Writing beautiful poetry works is not given to everyone. It It requires talent and insparation. Representatives of this type of literature. Alexander Pushkin, Lord Byron, William Shakespeare.

Poetry can be about anything. About people, about things, about love. For example, Ruslan and Ludmila by Alexander Pushkin a long and beautiful poem.

Verses have much common with songs. They both have rhyme and couplets.

There are modern poets too. They type their works on computer.

P.S. Poetry is needed to us, so we can feel the beauty of any language in rhyme.

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