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DRAMATISTS > poet > George Gordon Byron
If I don't...
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. . . I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure.
Source: Letter, 2 Jan 1821, in Byron's Letters and Journals, vol. 8, 1973-81.
-- George Gordon Byron, (Jan 22 1788-1824), English poet; He wrote many romantic narrative poems, including Childe Harold's Pilgrimagae, 1812.