Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
artful cost forming instead management recommend words
Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones
art reading mean
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
art liars lying
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
art greek phrases
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.
art drawing tests
Drawing is the true test of art.
art poet equal
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
art secret mind
What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.
art wine glasses
What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!
art men preparation
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
art powerful wine
Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?
death art kings
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
art stupid wine
O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?
art
A picture is a poem without words
art poetry sacred
Every old poem is sacred.