--- title: "17 Alexander Pope Quotes by 17 authors" description: "Browse 17 Alexander Pope quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best Alexander Pope sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b93/rebecca-solnit-569_flower_all-gardening-is-landscape-painting-said_2574076.png" --- > [All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-solnit/all-gardening-is-landscape-painting-said-alexander-pope/) [Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-solnit/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b93/rebecca-solnit-569_flower_all-gardening-is-landscape-painting-said_2574076.png) > [To err is human; to forgive, divine. --Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/to-err-is-human-to-forgive-divine-alexander-pope/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3d/alexander-pope-235_forgive_to-err-is-human-to-forgive-divine-alexan_1370356.png) > [We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willard-van-orman-quine/we-cannot-stem-linguistic-change-but-we-can-drag-our-feet-if-each-of/) [Willard Van Orman Quine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willard-van-orman-quine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4f/willard-van-orman-quine-10137_better-world_we-cannot-stem-linguistic-change-but-we_3072175.jpg) > [Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelsey-grammer/alexander-pope-once-wrote-that-the-theater-aspires-to-wake-the-soul/) [Kelsey Grammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelsey-grammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53d/kelsey-grammer-8855_art_alexander-pope-once-wrote-that-the-theat_1045878.jpg) > [“As the poet Alexander Pope said: Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-hawking/as-the-poet-alexander-pope-said-nature-and-nature-s-laws-lay-hid-in/) [Stephen Hawking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-hawking/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f4/stephen-hawking-389_light_as-the-poet-alexander-pope-said-nature-a_3181522.jpg) > [“A friend who teaches at a top university once asked her class to memorize thirty lines of the eighteenth-century poet Alexander Pope.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-deresiewicz/a-friend-who-teaches-at-a-top-university-once-asked-her-class-to/) [William Deresiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-deresiewicz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b9/william-deresiewicz-15471_friendship_a-friend-who-teaches-at-a-top-university_1094182.jpg) > [I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-joyce/i-shall-write-a-book-some-day-about-the-appropriateness-of-names/) [James Joyce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-joyce/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d08/james-joyce-281_appropriateness_i-shall-write-a-book-some-day-about-the_1863293.jpg) > [I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-keck/i-ve-always-been-a-fan-of-comedy-and-i-understood-from-a-young-age/) [Kevin Keck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-keck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/429/kevin-keck-25114_achieve_i-ve-always-been-a-fan-of-comedy-and-i-u_1396277.jpg) > [“A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-bellow/a-professor-from-ubc-observed-that-he-agreed-with-alexander-pope/) [Saul Bellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-bellow/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fff/saul-bellow-558_evil_a-professor-from-ubc-observed-that-he-ag_2591730.png) > [The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-johnson/the-essay-i-had-to-read-was-called-an-essay-on-criticism-by-alexander/) [Maureen Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/617/maureen-johnson-1282_challenges_the-essay-i-had-to-read-was-called-an-es_2805301.png) > [What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/what-vexes-me-most-is-that-my-female-friends-who-could-bear-me-very/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a8/jonathan-swift-433_age_what-vexes-me-most-is-that-my-female-fri_752542.jpg) > [A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tobias-smollett/a-mere-index-hunter-who-held-the-eel-of-science-by-the-tail-index/) [Tobias Smollett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tobias-smollett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e1/tobias-smollett-18143_acquire_a-mere-index-hunter-who-held-the-eel-of_2385125.jpg) > [Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, then deal with things that you know about - don't waste your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cooper-clarke/find-a-poet-whose-style-you-like-emulate-that-style-then-deal-with/) [John Cooper Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cooper-clarke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d1/john-cooper-clarke-4797_find_find-a-poet-whose-style-you-like-emulate_1343574.jpg) > [In the last fifteen years or so, the women's novel has turnedinto the Amtrak of American literature; crashing through the gates at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/in-the-last-fifteen-years-or-so-the-women-s-novel-has-turnedinto-the/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/793/anonymous-1_american-literature_in-the-last-fifteen-years-or-so-the-wome_2306818.jpg) > [“The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility. It is natural to suppose, that as much as has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-distance-is-commonly-very-great-between-actual-performances-and/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/220/samuel-johnson-50_undertaker_the-distance-is-commonly-very-great-betw_1502447.png) > [Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ravi-zacharias/capturing-the-beauty-of-the-conversion-of-the-water-into-wine-the/) [Ravi Zacharias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ravi-zacharias/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b09/ravi-zacharias-1158_bears_capturing-the-beauty-of-the-conversion-o_2820367.png) > [“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/creative-writer-has-artistic-sensibility-he-observes-the-world-like/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/aristotle-78_art_creative-writer-has-artistic-sensibility_87110.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alexander-pope/#itemlist", "name": "Alexander Pope Quotes", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rebecca Solnit" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-solnit/all-gardening-is-landscape-painting-said-alexander-pope/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b93/rebecca-solnit-569_flower_all-gardening-is-landscape-painting-said_2574076.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b93/rebecca-solnit-569_flower_all-gardening-is-landscape-painting-said_2574076.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b93/rebecca-solnit-569_flower_all-gardening-is-landscape-painting-said_2574076.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.” — Rebecca Solnit", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To err is human; to forgive, divine. --Alexander Pope", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alexander Pope" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/to-err-is-human-to-forgive-divine-alexander-pope/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3d/alexander-pope-235_forgive_to-err-is-human-to-forgive-divine-alexan_1370356.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3d/alexander-pope-235_forgive_to-err-is-human-to-forgive-divine-alexan_1370356.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3d/alexander-pope-235_forgive_to-err-is-human-to-forgive-divine-alexan_1370356.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To err is human; to forgive, divine. --Alexander Pope” — Alexander Pope", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. 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Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tobias Smollett" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tobias-smollett/a-mere-index-hunter-who-held-the-eel-of-science-by-the-tail-index/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e1/tobias-smollett-18143_acquire_a-mere-index-hunter-who-held-the-eel-of_2385125.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e1/tobias-smollett-18143_acquire_a-mere-index-hunter-who-held-the-eel-of_2385125.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e1/tobias-smollett-18143_acquire_a-mere-index-hunter-who-held-the-eel-of_2385125.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. 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I've emulated all the old guys - Tennyson, Alexander Pope.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Cooper Clarke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cooper-clarke/find-a-poet-whose-style-you-like-emulate-that-style-then-deal-with/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d1/john-cooper-clarke-4797_find_find-a-poet-whose-style-you-like-emulate_1343574.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d1/john-cooper-clarke-4797_find_find-a-poet-whose-style-you-like-emulate_1343574.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d1/john-cooper-clarke-4797_find_find-a-poet-whose-style-you-like-emulate_1343574.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, then deal with things that you know about - don't…” — John Cooper Clarke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In the last fifteen years or so, the women's novel has turnedinto the Amtrak of American literature; crashing through the gates at Aristotle, jumpingthe tracks at Horace, ignoringthe flashing red lights at Boileau, and scooping up Alexander Pope in the cowcatcher. The rules are down and it's every stylist for herself in this best of all Tupperware parties, where plot and characterization have been replaced by the kind of non-stop chatter that enabled the French Foreign Legion to meet its enlistment quota for a hundred and fifty years. In the unlikely event that future scholars will bother to give our era a cultural tag, it will be called the Age of Women's Litter.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/in-the-last-fifteen-years-or-so-the-women-s-novel-has-turnedinto-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/793/anonymous-1_american-literature_in-the-last-fifteen-years-or-so-the-wome_2306818.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/793/anonymous-1_american-literature_in-the-last-fifteen-years-or-so-the-wome_2306818.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/793/anonymous-1_american-literature_in-the-last-fifteen-years-or-so-the-wome_2306818.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In the last fifteen years or so, the women's novel has turnedinto the Amtrak of American literature…” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility. It is natural to suppose, that as much as has been done to-day may be done to-morrow; but on the morrow some difficulty emerges or some external impediment obstructs. Indolence, interruption, business, and pleasure; all take their turns of retardation; and every long work is lengthened by a thousand causes that can, and ten thousand that cannot, be recounted. Perhaps no extensive and multifarious performance was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker's mind. He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualties. From Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets series, published in 3 volumes between 1779 and 1781, on Alexander Pope”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Samuel Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-distance-is-commonly-very-great-between-actual-performances-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/220/samuel-johnson-50_undertaker_the-distance-is-commonly-very-great-betw_1502447.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/220/samuel-johnson-50_undertaker_the-distance-is-commonly-very-great-betw_1502447.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/220/samuel-johnson-50_undertaker_the-distance-is-commonly-very-great-betw_1502447.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility. It is natural…” — Samuel Johnson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, \"The conscious water saw its Master and blushed.\" That sublime description could be reworked to explain each one of these miracles. Was it any different in principle for a broken body to mend at the command of its Maker? Was it far-fetched for the Creator of the universe, who fashioned matter out of nothing, to multiply bread for the crowd? Was it not within the power of the One who called all the molecules into existence to interlock them that they might bear His footsteps?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ravi Zacharias" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ravi-zacharias/capturing-the-beauty-of-the-conversion-of-the-water-into-wine-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b09/ravi-zacharias-1158_bears_capturing-the-beauty-of-the-conversion-o_2820367.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b09/ravi-zacharias-1158_bears_capturing-the-beauty-of-the-conversion-o_2820367.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b09/ravi-zacharias-1158_bears_capturing-the-beauty-of-the-conversion-o_2820367.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, \"The conscious…” — Ravi Zacharias", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 17, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He can perceive from life-experience what common man cannot see at all. This experience and observation get imaginative colours with the help of artistic sensibility. He creates a world of imaginative reality. His world is more beautiful and artistic than the real world. He is naturally gifted to create the work which has power to move or transport the reader. He gets his raw material from the life. He is critic of life. Criticism is a task of those who write on the creative writings. The word criticism has been derived from the Greek word Kritikos, which means ‘able to discern and judge’ and whoever does the act of judging is called Critic. Criticism is the art of judging the merits and demerits of creative composition. In the words of Thomas De Quincey criticism may be termed as the literature of knowledge and creative writing as the literature of power. Literature of power deals with life, where as literature of knowledge share information on creative composition. Alexander Pope has rightly said: “Both from Heaven derive their light These born to judge, as well as those to write.” He gives equal value to both the critic and the creative writer. To him both are gifted writers, one to write creatively and the other to judge the creativity. But Dryden does not agree with the views of Pope. To him “the corruption of a poet is the generation of a critic.” He believed that those who cannot be good creative writer they become critics and corrupt creativity of the artists. Lessing believed that, “Not every critic is born a genius, but every genius is born a critic of art. He has within himself the evidence of all rules.” He gives respectful place to critics and criticism. He is of the belief that the critics are born genius to judge the work of art. No critic can ever form accurate judgement unless he possesses the artist’s vision. Criticism and creativity are inextricably mingled with each other. Thus the artist is the critic of life and Critic, that of art. The artist must have the imagination and vision to critically imitate the life/nature; the Critic from beginning to end, relive the same experience.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aristotle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/creative-writer-has-artistic-sensibility-he-observes-the-world-like/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/aristotle-78_art_creative-writer-has-artistic-sensibility_87110.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/aristotle-78_art_creative-writer-has-artistic-sensibility_87110.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/aristotle-78_art_creative-writer-has-artistic-sensibility_87110.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. 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