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title: "32 Poetry Quotes By Alexander Pope"
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> [Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/cursed-be-the-verse-how-well-so-e-er-it-flow-that-tends-to-make-one/)

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> [Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/grave-authors-say-and-witty-poets-sing-that-honest-wedlock-is-a/)

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> [“Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/remembrance-and-reflection-how-allied-what-thin-partitions-sense-from/)

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> [“She sins with poets through pure love of wit”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/she-sins-with-poets-through-pure-love-of-wit/)

[Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/)

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> [While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/while-pensive-poets-painful-vigils-keep-sleepless-themselves-to-give/)

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> [“Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/next-o-er-his-books-his-eyes-began-to-roll-in-pleasing-memory-of-all/)

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> [“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/sir-i-admit-your-general-rule-that-every-poet-is-a-fool-but-you-2/)

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> [Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful tongue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/such-were-the-notes-thy-once-loved-poet-sung-till-death-untimely/)

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> [Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/some-have-at-first-for-wits-then-poets-passed-turned-critics-next-and/)

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> [“Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/oh-let-me-live-my-own-and-die-so-too-to-live-and-die-is-all-i-have-to/)

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> [Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/pretty-conceptions-fine-metaphors-glittering-expressions-and/)

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> [Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/music-resembles-poetry-in-each-are-nameless-graces-which-no-methods/)

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> [Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/is-there-a-parson-much-bemused-in-beer-a-maudlin-poetess-a-rhyming/)

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> [For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/for-what-i-have-publish-d-i-can-only-hope-to-be-pardon-d-but-for-what/)

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> [Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/poets-like-painters-thus-unskilled-to-trace-the-naked-nature-and-the/)

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> [But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/but-touch-me-and-no-minister-so-sore-whoe-er-offends-at-some-unlucky/)

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> [Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/of-little-use-the-man-you-may-suppose-who-says-in-verse-what-others/)

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> [“In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/in-pride-in-reasoning-pride-our-error-lies-all-quit-their-sphere-and/)

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> [“The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore: All, all look up, with reverential…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/the-wit-of-cheats-the-courage-of-a-whore-are-what-ten-thousand-envy/)

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> [I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/i-think-a-good-deal-may-be-said-to-extenuate-the-fault-of-bad-poets/)

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> [“Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/heav-n-from-all-creatures-hides-the-book-of-fate-all-but-the-page/)

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> [“Poetic justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. Here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/poetic-justice-with-her-lifted-scale-where-in-nice-balance-truth-with/)

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> [“ Solitude Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/solitude-happy-the-man-whose-wish-and-care-a-few-paternal-acres-bound/)

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> [Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/soft-is-the-strain-when-zephyr-gently-blows-and-the-smooth-stream-in/)

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> [“Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/homer-is-universally-allowed-to-have-had-the-greatest-invention-of/)

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> [“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/know-then-thyself-presume-not-god-to-scan-the-proper-study-of-mankind-2/)

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> [“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/true-ease-in-writing-comes-from-art-not-chance-as-those-move-easiest-2/)

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> [“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/hope-springs-eternal-in-the-human-breast-man-never-is-but-always-to-3/)

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> [Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/careless-of-censure-nor-too-fond-of-fame-still-pleased-to-praise-yet/)

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> [“Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/some-who-grow-dull-religious-straight-commence-and-gain-in-morals/)

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> [Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/poets-heap-virtues-painters-gems-at-will-and-show-their-zeal-and-hide/)

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> [Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/leave-not-a-foot-of-verse-a-foot-of-stone-a-page-a-grave-that-they/)

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## More by Alexander Pope

> [How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/how-do-we-know-that-we-have-a-right-to-kill-creatures-that-we-are-so/)

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> [To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/to-wake-the-soul-by-tender-strokes-of-art-to-raise-the-genius-and-to/)

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> [A mighty maze! But not without a plan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/a-mighty-maze-but-not-without-a-plan/)

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> [Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/let-such-teach-others-who-themselves-excel-and-censure-freely-who/)

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> [For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/for-i-who-hold-sage-homer-s-rule-the-best-welcome-the-coming-speed/)

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> [Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/like-following-life-through-creatures-you-dissect-you-lose-it-in-the/)

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> [When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/when-two-people-compliment-each-other-with-the-choice-of-anything/)

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> [Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/such-labour-d-nothings-in-so-strange-a-style-amaze-th-unlearn-d-and/)

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> [Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/charms-strike-the-sight-but-merit-wins-the-soul/)

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> [She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/she-went-from-opera-park-assembly-play-to-morning-walks-and-prayers/)

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> [I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/i-am-satisfied-to-trifle-away-my-time-rather-than-let-it-stick-by-me/)

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> [The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/the-greatest-advantage-i-know-of-being-thought-a-wit-by-the-world-is/)

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> [Then say not Man's imperfect,Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect ashe ought:](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/then-say-not-man-s-imperfect-heav-n-in-fault-say-rather-man-s-as/)

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> [First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/first-follow-nature-and-your-judgment-frame-by-her-just-standard/)

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> [Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/who-shall-decide-when-doctors-disagree-and-soundest-casuists-doubt/)

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                        "text": "“The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore: All, all look up, with reverential Awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law: While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-' 'Nothing is sacred now but Villainy' - Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I”",
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                        "text": "I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.",
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                        "text": "“Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall.”",
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                        "text": "“Poetic justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep, Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep, Till genial Jacob, or a warm third day, Call forth each mass, a poem, or a play: How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie, How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry.”",
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                        "text": "“ Solitude Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern’dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease Together mix’d, sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.”",
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                        "text": "Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.",
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                        "text": "“Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested with him, and others may have their pretensions as to particular excellencies; but his invention remains yet unrivalled. Nor is it a wonder if he has ever been acknowledged the greatest of poets, who most excelled in that which is the very foundation of poetry. It is the invention that in different degrees distinguishes all great geniuses: the utmost stretch of human study, learning, and industry, which masters everything besides, can never attain to this. It furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, judgment itself can at best but steal wisely: for Art is only like a prudent steward, that lives on managing the riches of Nature. Whatever praises may be given to works of judgment, there is not even a single beauty in them but is owing to the invention: as in the most regular gardens, however Art may carry the greatest appearance, there is not a plant or flower but is the gift of Nature. The first can only reduce the beauties of the latter into a more obvious figure, which the common eye may better take in, and is therefore more entertained with them. And perhaps the reason why most critics are inclined to prefer a judicious and methodical genius to a great and fruitful one, is, because they find it easier for themselves to pursue their observations through an uniform and bounded walk of Art, than to comprehend the vast and various extent of Nature.”",
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                        "text": "“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Go, wondrous creature! mount where science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old time, and regulate the sun; Go, soar with Plato to th’ empyreal sphere, To the first good, first perfect, and first fair; Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, And quitting sense call imitating God; As Eastern priests in giddy circles run, And turn their heads to imitate the sun. Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule— Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!”",
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                        "text": "“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! While, at each change, the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, And the world's victor stood subdu'd by sound! The pow'r of music all our hearts allow, And what Timotheus was, is Dryden now.”",
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