What did Alexander Pope mean by: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Alexander Pope Poet · England Copy
+ Envy, to which th’ ignoble mind’s a slave, Is emulation in the learn’d or brave. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alexander Pope, Emulation, Envy, Superiority, 0 Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alexander Pope, Religion, Tradition, Unity, 0 Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alexander Pope, Confusion, Education, Folly, 0 Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alexander Pope, God, Nature, Unity, 0 Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alexander Pope, Morality, Provocation, 0 Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all . Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alexander Pope, Ambivalence, Fame, Unpredictability, 0 Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alexander Pope, Charity, Death, Legacy, 0 Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alexander Pope, Clarity, Discovery, Passion, 0 Alexander Pope Poet · England
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
