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
greek-poet poems poetry written
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
poetry anvils ill
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.
order poetry tribes
I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
giving poetry pleasure
That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.
men poetry rate
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.
art poetry sacred
Every old poem is sacred.
men poetry mediocrity
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.
poetry substance trifles
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
poetry matter comic
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
years poetry nine
Let your poem be kept nine years.
poetry imperfection faults
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
interesting poetry enough
It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.
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.