Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)
HoratiusPulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)
HoratiusTags: life death latin shadow greek dust
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.
HoratiusIt is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.
HoratiusHe who combines the useful and the pleasing wins out by both instructing and delighting the reader. That is the sort of book that will make money for the publisher, cross the seas, and extend the fame of the author.
HoratiusSapere aude
HoratiusI had rather seem mad and a sluggard, so that my defects are agreeable to myself, or that I am not pinfully conscious of them, than be wise, and chaptious.
HoratiusParturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
(Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born)
Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.
HoratiusTags: brevity
Now is the time to drink!
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