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
book destiny
Books have their destinies.
book fate today
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
wisdom book
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
book men poet
Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.
book grace may
Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
book land wheat-fields
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field.
book giving house
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
jesus book cities
Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.
spring book rain
Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.
books house room windows
A house without books is like room without windows
book men brain
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale
struggle
I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure.
died pride vain
Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died