All things Quote by Horace Download Open image “Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare All things Firsts Instructors Mankind Native Poet Poetry Use
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and… — Kevin Crossley-Holland Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in the lives of those I love, it is for their highest good. From all things that are put before us all, we shall become stronger and more loving people. I am grateful for all the beauty… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share
Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto. — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally,… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile,… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image