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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 26 https://quiltr.com/?p=25332 You want an ars poetica? I’ll give you ars poetic! And your little dog too and a host of golden daffodils! #arspoetica #daffodils #dothework #keyboard #NaPoWriMo #pencil #pens #poetry #process #sonnet #words
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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 26 https://quiltr.com/?p=25332 You want an ars poetica? I’ll give you ars poetic! And your little dog too and a host of golden daffodils! #arspoetica #daffodils #dothework #keyboard #NaPoWriMo #pencil #pens #poetry #process #sonnet #words
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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 26 https://quiltr.com/?p=25332 You want an ars poetica? I’ll give you ars poetic! And your little dog too and a host of golden daffodils! #arspoetica #daffodils #dothework #keyboard #NaPoWriMo #pencil #pens #poetry #process #sonnet #words
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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 26 https://quiltr.com/?p=25332 You want an ars poetica? I’ll give you ars poetic! And your little dog too and a host of golden daffodils! #arspoetica #daffodils #dothework #keyboard #NaPoWriMo #pencil #pens #poetry #process #sonnet #words
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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 26 https://quiltr.com/?p=25332 You want an ars poetica? I’ll give you ars poetic! And your little dog too and a host of golden daffodils! #arspoetica #daffodils #dothework #keyboard #NaPoWriMo #pencil #pens #poetry #process #sonnet #words
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The man who mingles the useful with the sweet carries the day by charming his reader and at the same time instructing him. That’s the book to enrich the publisher, to be posted over seas, and to prolong its author’s fame.
[Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci,
lectorem delectando pariterque monendo.
Hic meret aera liber Sosiis, hic et mare transit
et longum noto scriptori prorogat aevum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 343ff (2.3.343-346) (19 BC) [tr. Blakeney; ed. Kramer, Jr. (1936)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83453/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #author #bestseller #drama #entertainment #fame #froth #lesson #literature #message #moral #pith #poetry #success #writing
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The man who mingles the useful with the sweet carries the day by charming his reader and at the same time instructing him. That’s the book to enrich the publisher, to be posted over seas, and to prolong its author’s fame.
[Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci,
lectorem delectando pariterque monendo.
Hic meret aera liber Sosiis, hic et mare transit
et longum noto scriptori prorogat aevum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 343ff (2.3.343-346) (19 BC) [tr. Blakeney; ed. Kramer, Jr. (1936)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83453/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #author #bestseller #drama #entertainment #fame #froth #lesson #literature #message #moral #pith #poetry #success #writing
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The man who mingles the useful with the sweet carries the day by charming his reader and at the same time instructing him. That’s the book to enrich the publisher, to be posted over seas, and to prolong its author’s fame.
[Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci,
lectorem delectando pariterque monendo.
Hic meret aera liber Sosiis, hic et mare transit
et longum noto scriptori prorogat aevum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 343ff (2.3.343-346) (19 BC) [tr. Blakeney; ed. Kramer, Jr. (1936)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83453/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #author #bestseller #drama #entertainment #fame #froth #lesson #literature #message #moral #pith #poetry #success #writing
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The man who mingles the useful with the sweet carries the day by charming his reader and at the same time instructing him. That’s the book to enrich the publisher, to be posted over seas, and to prolong its author’s fame.
[Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci,
lectorem delectando pariterque monendo.
Hic meret aera liber Sosiis, hic et mare transit
et longum noto scriptori prorogat aevum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 343ff (2.3.343-346) (19 BC) [tr. Blakeney; ed. Kramer, Jr. (1936)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83453/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #author #bestseller #drama #entertainment #fame #froth #lesson #literature #message #moral #pith #poetry #success #writing
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The man who mingles the useful with the sweet carries the day by charming his reader and at the same time instructing him. That’s the book to enrich the publisher, to be posted over seas, and to prolong its author’s fame.
[Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci,
lectorem delectando pariterque monendo.
Hic meret aera liber Sosiis, hic et mare transit
et longum noto scriptori prorogat aevum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 343ff (2.3.343-346) (19 BC) [tr. Blakeney; ed. Kramer, Jr. (1936)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83453/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #author #bestseller #drama #entertainment #fame #froth #lesson #literature #message #moral #pith #poetry #success #writing
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It isn’t enough for poems to be things of beauty:
Let them STUN the hearer and lead his heart where they will.
[Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto
Et, quocumque uolent, animum auditoris agunto.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 99ff (2.3.99-100) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83176/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #beauty #charm #craft #drama #emotion #engagement #feelings #form #impact #influence #message #moving #passion #play #poem #polish #prettiness #substance #theater #writing
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It isn’t enough for poems to be things of beauty:
Let them STUN the hearer and lead his heart where they will.
[Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto
Et, quocumque uolent, animum auditoris agunto.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 99ff (2.3.99-100) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83176/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #beauty #charm #craft #drama #emotion #engagement #feelings #form #impact #influence #message #moving #passion #play #poem #polish #prettiness #substance #theater #writing
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It isn’t enough for poems to be things of beauty:
Let them STUN the hearer and lead his heart where they will.
[Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto
Et, quocumque uolent, animum auditoris agunto.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 99ff (2.3.99-100) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83176/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #beauty #charm #craft #drama #emotion #engagement #feelings #form #impact #influence #message #moving #passion #play #poem #polish #prettiness #substance #theater #writing
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It isn’t enough for poems to be things of beauty:
Let them STUN the hearer and lead his heart where they will.
[Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto
Et, quocumque uolent, animum auditoris agunto.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 99ff (2.3.99-100) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83176/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #beauty #charm #craft #drama #emotion #engagement #feelings #form #impact #influence #message #moving #passion #play #poem #polish #prettiness #substance #theater #writing
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It isn’t enough for poems to be things of beauty:
Let them STUN the hearer and lead his heart where they will.
[Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto
Et, quocumque uolent, animum auditoris agunto.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 99ff (2.3.99-100) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83176/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #beauty #charm #craft #drama #emotion #engagement #feelings #form #impact #influence #message #moving #passion #play #poem #polish #prettiness #substance #theater #writing
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Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
Who courts variety and fain would ring
A thousand changes on the self-same string,
Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
Thus even error, shun’d without address,
Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
[Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing
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ON READING ANOTHER POET FOR THE FIRST TIME
Few of us have the luxury
of existing in a world denuded
of concepts and signifiers —
so I take that first plunge
into your phenomenology,
your lifeworld, the bleary
blaze of your sensorium via
the gateway of your neuroses.
Did you set out to share or unburden
and, in perceiving a difference
between the two, am I saying
too much about myself?
