Horace Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Matter Quotes

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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Every old poem is sacred.

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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

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The union of a want and a sentiment.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

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Why then we should drop into poetry.

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Language is fossil Poetry.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

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The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

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The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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