Poetry Quote by Alexander Pope — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,”

“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;”

“If I am right, Thy grace impart”

“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;”

“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“Therefore, since the world has still”

“This dewdrop world”

“Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,”

“Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.”

“He was my North, my South, my East and West,”

“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly burns our sun! One would say its rays of light are shards of snow, one imagines the sun lives upon a snow crested peak on this day. One would say she is a woman who wears a gown of winter frost that blinds the eyes. Helplessness has weakened me. Wandering has wearied my legs.”