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Good Homer sometimes nods, which gives me a jerk —
But sleep may well worm its way into any long work!
[Et idem
indignor, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
verum operi longo fas est obrepere somnum.]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. 358ff (2.3.358-360) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14656/
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Good Homer sometimes nods, which gives me a jerk —
But sleep may well worm its way into any long work!
[Et idem
indignor, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
verum operi longo fas est obrepere somnum.]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. 358ff (2.3.358-360) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14656/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #homer #homernods #humannature #error #flaw #frailty #genius #greatness #humancondition #imperfection #shortcoming
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A quotation from Katharine Lee Bates
America! America!
God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) American writer and poet
Poem (1893), “America,” st. 2 (1904 ed.)More info about this quote: wist.info/bates-katharine-lee/…
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