Quote

And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

Alexander Pope

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
Literary Historian
Poet
Translator
the City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
Alexander
I Pope
Seems
Love
Tread
Wings
Air
Walk
Seem
Walks

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
Alexander Pope
Image
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Alexander Pope
Image
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
Alexander Pope
Image
So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope
Image
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
Alexander Pope
Image
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander Pope
Image
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope
Image
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
Alexander Pope
Image
It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
Alexander Pope
Image
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
Alexander Pope
Image
I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
Alexander Pope
Image
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Alexander Pope
Image
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Alexander Pope
Image
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
Alexander Pope
Image
And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
Alexander Pope
Image
Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
Alexander Pope
Image
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander Pope
Image
The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
Alexander Pope
Image
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Alexander Pope
Image
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
Alexander Pope