What did Horace mean by: Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men. - Horace Copy
+ I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Death, Dying, Graves, 0 - Horace
+ I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Fear, Footprint, 0 - Horace
+ Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence? Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Art, Powerful, Wine, 0 - Horace
+ The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Hope, Reaching, 0 - Horace
+ He’s arm’d without that’s innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Innocence, Literature, Wall, 0 - Horace
+ The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Color, Laughter, Stolen, 0 - Horace
+ What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned? Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Age, Evil, Wickedness, 0 - Horace
+ Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Judgment, Policy, Strength, 0 - Horace
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. - Jean Toomer Writer
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
