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

“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;”

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

“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.”

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;”

“Some who grow dull religious straight commence”

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

“Peace is always beautiful.”

“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.”

“There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.”

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

“Un soir qu'ils étaient couchés l'un près de l'autre, comme elle lui demandait d'inventer un poème qui commencerait par je connais un beau pays, il s'exécuta sur-le-champ. Je connais un beau pays Il est de l'or et d'églantine Tout le monde s'y sourit Ah quelle aventure fine Les tigres y sont poltrons Les agneaux ont fière mine À tous les vieux vagabonds Ariane donne des tartines. Alors, elle lui baisa le la main, et il eut honte de cette admiration.”

“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,”