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

“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;”

“Remembrance and reflection how allied!”

“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”

“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.”

“Some who grow dull religious straight commence”

“Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please,”

“My love is like a red, red rose”

“The magic fades too fast”

“However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.”

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies, poets tend to let their thoughts conjure a rhyme in tune with the extraordinary struggles of ordinary life.”

“Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight”

“Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time is ripe for that. The root causes of poetry have been studied and studied. And now that we know that pockets of poetry still exist in our great country, especially in the large urban centers, we ought to be able to wash it out totally in one generation, if we put our backs into it.”