All HORACE Quotes about “Poetry”

“No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.”
“Let your poem be kept nine years.”
“It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.”
“Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.”
“Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]”
“A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]”
“And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.”
“Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.”
“I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.”
“Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.”

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