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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.] - Ars Poetica (38) [Authorship] Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.] - Ars Poetica (388) [Authorship] Let your poem be kept nine years. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.] - Ars Poetica (388) [Poetry] It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.] - Ars Poetica (389) [Words] These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.] - Ars Poetica (451) [Trifles] A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.] - Ars Poetica (89) [Poetry] Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.] - Ars Poetica (9) [Art] It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting. [Lat., Non satis est pulchra esse poemata, dulcia sunto.] - Ars Poetica (99) [Poetry] He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold. [Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere metam Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.] - Ars Poetica (CCCCXII) [Labor] I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. [Lat., Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.] - Ars Poetica (CCCXVII) [Imitation] What advice you give, be short. [Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.] - Ars Poetica (CCCXXXV) [Advice] The coming years bring many advantages with them: retiring they take away many. [Lat., Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum: Multa recedentes adimunt.] - Ars Poetica (CLXXV) [Compensation] Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.] - Ars Poetica (CXCI) [Gods] It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. [Lat., Intererit multum Davusne loquatur an heros.] - Ars Poetica (CXIV) [Oratory] So that what is a beautiful woman on top ends in a black and ugly fish. [Lat., Ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne.] - Ars Poetica (l. 3) [Beauty] If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief. [Lat., Si vis me flere, dolendum est Primum ipsi tibi.] - Ars Poetica (V, 102) [Mourning : Tears] A vase is begun; why, as the wheel goes round, does it turn out a pitcher? [Lat., Amphora coepit Instituti; currente rota cur urceus exit?] - Ars Poetica (XXI) [Change] In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.] - Ars Poetica (XXV) [Speech] He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.] - Ars Poetica (XXX) [Imagination : Painting : Proverbs] I strike the stars with by sublime head. [Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.] - Carmina (bk. I, 1) [Ambition] While we are speaking envious time will have fled. Seize the present day. [Lat., Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Aetas: carpe diem.] - Carmina (bk. I, 11, 7) [Time] Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow. [Lat., Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.] - Carmina (bk. I, 11, 8) [Time] Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.] - Carmina (bk. I, 3, 37) [Heaven] Let not a day so fair be without its white chalk mark. [Lat., Cressa ne careat pulchra dies nota.] - Carmina (bk. I, 36, 10) [Day] Postumus, Postumus, the years glide by us: Alas! no piety delays the wrinkles, Not the indomitable hand of Death. [Lat., Eheu fugaces Postume, Postume, Labuntur anni, nec pietas moram Rugis et instanti senectae Afferet, indomitae que morti.] - Carmina (bk. II, 14, 1) [Time] Displaying page 15 of 25 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [15] 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
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