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
wise writing thinking
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
crazy writing men
The man is either crazy or he is a poet.
writing secret sound
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
reading writing editing
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
writing apology thinking
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
writing care authorship
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
writing authorship ability
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]
writing gains applause
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
writing parent firsts
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
writing foundation source
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]
mean writing bears
Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]
choose equal hard powers subject suited unable writers-and-writing
You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
writing simple play
I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot of notes, which may or may not say something . . . But why make it complicated for the musicians to play? Why make it difficult for the listeners to hear?
writing style wells
The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.