Horace Ars Poetica Quotes

#1. Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

Immanuel Kant

#2. The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

Jessica Savitch

#3. Don't run too fast through life. You only have one.

Bo Jackson

#4. Am I too blunt? If the truth is too hard to swallow, should I feed you soft lies?

Edward W. Robertson

#5. Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

Adolf Hitler

#6. Surrender to fate and you will never be fully contented.

Steven Redhead

#7. You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.

Graham Swift

#8. Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't publish them until you have kept them around for ten years: by that time, they ought to stop moving on you; by that time, you ought to have them right.

Donald Hall