Alexander Pope Quotes About Change

Quotes about: Change

• First follow Nature, and your judgment frame
  By her just standard, which is still the same:
  Unerring nature, still divinely bright,
  One clear, unchanged, and universal light,
  Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,
  At once the source, and end, and test of art.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Change, Art

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 68

• When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

  Alexander Pope

  Change, Past, Path

• Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

  Alexander Pope

  Change, Lasts, Firsts

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.89

• Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

  Alexander Pope

  Change, Fall, Clouds

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.12

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