Alexander Pope Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

  Alexander Pope

  Dance, Art, Moving

  "The Works of Alexander Pope".

• Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Knowledge, Fruit

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.15

• And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Goddess

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 251

• Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown
  Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own?
  As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
  I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

  Alexander Pope

  Children, Writing, Numbers

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.274

• No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Doe, Way

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.232

• Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Men, Names

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.105

• Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Parent, Ink

  Alexander Pope (2002). “Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.178, Routledge

• Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Writing, Heart

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.108

• Most authors steal their works, or buy.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Writing, Stealing

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.87

• Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

  Alexander Pope

  Wall, Writing, Rooms

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1751). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.49

• But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Men, Scribbles

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 187

• Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Criticism, Censure

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

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