Perhaps you know how to draw a cypress tree: so what, if yo… - Horace

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Perhaps you know how to draw a cypress tree: so what, if you've been given money to paint a sailor plunging from a shipwreck
in despair?

Horace

Ars Poetica · December 1, 1939 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin.

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Native Name: Q. Horatius Flaccus

Alternative Names: Quintus Horatius Flaccus • Horatius • Horatius Flaccus

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Ovid Virgil Juvenal Lucretius Cicero

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Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers

Perhaps you know how to draw a cypress tree: so what, if you've been given money to paint a sailor plunging from a shipwreck in despair? - Horace

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