WIST QuotationsLet them STUN the hearer and lead his heart where they will.
[Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto
Et, quocumque uolent, animum auditoris agunto.]
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 99ff (2.3.99-100) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]
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Horace - Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 "Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos]," l. 99ff (2.3.99-100) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)] | WIST Quotations
It isn't enough for poems to be things of beauty: Let them stun the hearer and lead his heart where they will. [Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto Et, quocumque uolent, animum auditoris agunto.] One of the most famous lines in the Ars Poetica. (Source (Latin)). Other translations:…
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