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
city country distant oh praise rome stars
In Rome you long for the country; in the country oh inconstant! you praise the distant city to the stars
city country distant oh praise rome stars
In Rome you long for the country; in the country oh inconstant! you praise the distant city to the stars
stars science sun
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
stars moon light
And yet more bright Shines out the Julian star, As moon outglows each lesser light. [Lat., Micat inter omnes Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes Luna minores.]
stars poet strikes
If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]
stars ambition strikes
I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
stars jobs somewhere-under
Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.
stars truth shining
New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.
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
fools-and-foolishness good mix silly
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)
fools-and-foolishness lovely mix moment serious silly
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment
absurd birth mountains
Mountains will be in labour, and the birth will be an absurd little mouse.