Quote by Alexander Pope
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. - Alexander Pope

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. – Alexander Pope

Other quotes by Alexander Pope

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. – Alexander Pope

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Art
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isnt much better than tedious disease. – Alexander Pope

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diet
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No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. – Thomas Harrison

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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater

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Compression of poetry is so great I often explode. Out of the house to walk off a poem. – William Corbett, “On Reading: Notes & a Poem,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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Once that bell rings youre on your own. Its just you and the other guy. – Joe E. Louis

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