“And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.”
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“It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.”
Source: Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering
Source: Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering
“It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.”
“There are as many preferences as there are men.”
Source: The Complete Works of Horace
“Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.”
“When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.”
“The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.”
Source: Horace: The Epistles, book I-II. The Art of poetry. Appendix, containing translations of various odes, &c
“As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.”