What did Horace mean by: Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use. - Horace Copy
+ The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.] Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Hate, Sin, Virtue, 0 - Horace
+ Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Mind, 0 - Horace
+ He who preserves a man’s life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Preserves, 0 - Horace
+ Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Ashamed, Oats, 0 - Horace
+ A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Calamity, Genius, Host, 0 - Horace
+ If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Grief, Literature, 0 - Horace
+ Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Noble, Wealth, 0 - Horace
+ The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Hours, Welcome, 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
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
