Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
Alexander Popewas an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 May 1688
hope quitting dies
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
food health anxiety
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
angel ambition men
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
men vanity understanding
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
atheist children dark
Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
life eye tongue
O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
life two space
Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
life heart thinking
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
life heart sheep
Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
life sight swim
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
knowledge reflection half
In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
life taught affliction
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
life grace zeal
Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
being-strong exercise mind
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.