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
fighting life-is form
For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
fall vices vain
Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
eye yellow spy
All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
hair stones grapes
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
feelings kind wondrous
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
past politics lasts
Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
politics states interest
Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
expression poetry dresses
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
nature tree robes
A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
music warrior fire
By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
music pain grief
Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
soldier grace crowns
Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
men giving society
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
nurse solitude
Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!