--- title: "22 Poet Quotes By Horace" description: "22 Poet quotes by Horace. Plus more from Horace and more Poet sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea5/horace-172_fellow_the-fellow-is-either-a-madman-or-a-poet_93332.jpg" --- > [The fellow is either a madman or a poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/the-fellow-is-either-a-madman-or-a-poet/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea5/horace-172_fellow_the-fellow-is-either-a-madman-or-a-poet_93332.jpg) > [The man is either crazy or he is a poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/the-man-is-either-crazy-or-he-is-a-poet/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/585/horace-172_crazy_the-man-is-either-crazy-or-he-is-a-poet_193486.jpg) > [The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/the-poet-must-put-on-the-passion-he-wants-to-represent/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d2/horace-172_passion_the-poet-must-put-on-the-passion-he-want_3093664.jpg) > [Limbs of a dismembered poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/limbs-of-a-dismembered-poet/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/782/horace-172_inspirational_limbs-of-a-dismembered-poet-178174_178174.jpg) > [Poets wish to profit or to please.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/poets-wish-to-profit-or-to-please/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee1/horace-172_please_poets-wish-to-profit-or-to-please-217774_2177744.jpg) > [Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/painters-and-poets-have-equal-license-in-regard-to-everything/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddb/horace-172_art_painters-and-poets-have-equal-license-in_757899.jpg) > [Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/mediocrity-in-poets-has-never-been-tolerated-by-either-men-or-gods-or/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7eb/horace-172_booksellers_mediocrity-in-poets-has-never-been-toler_1755240.jpg) > [Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/mediocrity-is-not-allowed-to-poets-either-by-the-gods-or-men/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e1/horace-172_mediocrity_mediocrity-is-not-allowed-to-poets-eithe_1080597.jpg) > [Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/poets-are-never-allowed-to-be-mediocre-by-the-gods-by-men-or-by/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b45/horace-172_book_poets-are-never-allowed-to-be-mediocre-b_2302800.jpg) > [I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/i-have-to-submit-to-much-in-order-to-pacify-the-touchy-tribe-of-poets/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cea/horace-172_order_i-have-to-submit-to-much-in-order-to-pac_2629497.jpg) > [Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/poets-the-first-instructors-of-mankind-brought-all-things-to-the/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/horace-172_all-things_poets-the-first-instructors-of-mankind-b_1857967.jpg) > [ The man is either mad or his is making verses. \[Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/the-man-is-either-mad-or-his-is-making-verses-lat-aut-insanit-homo/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5e/horace-172_he-man_the-man-is-either-mad-or-his-is-making-v_2848461.jpg) > [Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/not-gods-nor-men-nor-even-booksellers-have-put-up-with-poets-being/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c13/horace-172_booksellers_not-gods-nor-men-nor-even-booksellers-ha_2955707.jpg) > [He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/he-who-studies-to-imitate-the-poet-pindar-o-julius-relies-on/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6a/horace-172_artificial_he-who-studies-to-imitate-the-poet-pinda_2636692.jpg) > ["Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/painters-and-poets-you-say-have-always-had-an-equal-license-in-bold/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c2/horace-172_claims_painters-and-poets-you-say-have-always-h_1152623.jpg) > [Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/painters-and-poets-alike-have-always-had-license-to-dare-anything-we/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c3/horace-172_claims_painters-and-poets-alike-have-always-had_850360.jpg) > [Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. \[Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/neither-men-nor-gods-nor-booksellers-shelves-permit-ordinary-poets-to/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd4/horace-172_booksellers_neither-men-nor-gods-nor-booksellers-she_23851.jpg) > [Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/many-brave-men-lived-before-agamemnon-but-all-unwept-and-unknown-are/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/137/horace-172_agamemnon_many-brave-men-lived-before-agamemnon-bu_2078848.jpg) > [If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. \[Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/if-you-rank-me-with-the-lyric-poets-my-exalted-head-shall-strike-the/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/horace-172_exalted_if-you-rank-me-with-the-lyric-poets-my-e_3164229.jpg) > [The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/the-poets-aim-is-either-to-profit-or-to-please-or-to-blend-in-one-the/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e39/horace-172_aim_the-poets-aim-is-either-to-profit-or-to_2189834.jpg) > [The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/the-aim-of-the-poet-is-to-inform-or-delight-or-to-combine-together-in/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f04/horace-172_aim_the-aim-of-the-poet-is-to-inform-or-deli_1250650.jpg) > [The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/the-power-of-daring-anything-their-fancy-suggest-as-always-been/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/horace-172_conceded_the-power-of-daring-anything-their-fancy_1273435.jpg) ## Other authors on Poet - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 77 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet/henry-david-thoreau/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 72 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edward-hirsch-31825.jpg) Edward Hirsch 43 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet/edward-hirsch/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-plato-75782.jpg) Plato 32 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet/plato/) - [Shah Asad Rizvi 28 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet/shah-asad-rizvi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-virginia-woolf-93906.jpg) Virginia Woolf 27 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet/virginia-woolf/) - [W. H. Auden 26 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet/w-h-auden/) - [T. S. Eliot 25 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet/t-s-eliot/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-oscar-wilde-72846.jpg) Oscar Wilde 23 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet/oscar-wilde/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-wallace-stevens-94267.jpg) Wallace Stevens 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet/wallace-stevens/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-robert-frost-79752.jpg) Robert Frost 21 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet/robert-frost/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-robert-graves-79790.jpg) Robert Graves 20 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet/robert-graves/) ## More by Horace > [Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/strange-is-it-not-that-of-the-myriads-who-before-us-passed-the-door/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) > [“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/finxerunt-animi-raro-et-perpauca-loquentis-to-action-little-less-to/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) > [No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/no-verse-can-give-pleasure-for-long-nor-last-that-is-written-by/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) > [Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/fate-with-impartial-hand-turns-out-the-doom-of-high-and-low-her/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) > [A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/a-word-once-sent-abroad-flies-irrevocably/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) > [“Natales grate numeras? (Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/natales-grate-numeras-do-you-count-your-birthdays-with-gratitude/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) > [ In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. \[Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/in-a-moment-comes-either-death-or-joyful-victory-lat-horae-momento/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) > [Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/dulce-et-decorum-est-pro-patria-mori-it-is-a-sweet-and-becoming-thing/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) > [ Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. \[Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/neither-men-nor-gods-nor-booksellers-shelves-permit-ordinary-poets-to/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) > [Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/don-t-yield-to-that-alluring-witch-laziness-or-else-be-prepared-to/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) > [Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/avoid-inquisitive-persons-for-they-are-sure-to-be-gossips-their-ears/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) > [“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/you-may-drive-out-nature-with-a-pitchfork-yet-she-still-will-hurry/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) > [There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/there-is-a-proper-measure-in-all-things-certain-limits-beyond-which/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) > [Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/never-despair-while-under-the-guidance-and-auspices-of-teucer/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) > [Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/alas-postumus-the-fleeting-years-slip-by-nor-will-piety-give-any-stay/) [Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet/horace/#itemlist", "name": "22 Poet Quotes By Horace", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The fellow is 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