Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool.
But you yourself may prove to show it,
Every fool is not a poet.
Remembrance and reflection how allied!
What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!
Tags: poetry thought reflection sense remembrance poems
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
Alexander PopeTags: criticism
Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away.
Tags: imagination memory enchanting
In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.
Tags: poetry
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.
For when success a lover's toil attends,
Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
Tags: success love fraud betrayal force-in-love
All forms that perish other forms supply,
(By turns we catch the vital breath and die)
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please,
With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,
With too much quickness ever to be taught,
With too much thinking to have common thought:
You purchase pain with all that joy can give,
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Tags: poetry
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander PopeTags: misattributed-ben-franklin beatitudes misattributed-swift
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