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
believe forgiving lines
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
future tyrants hell
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
wife long ease
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
profession
Every professional was once an amateur.
errors judging world
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
passion masters breasts
And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
rose liquid amber
Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
compass ends regard
In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
teaching heart design
To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
home soul veronica-mars
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
character pride dust
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
dresses different wonder
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
soul poor holes
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
thinking sky dies
Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?