Alexander Pope Quotes About Writing
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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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.
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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.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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