Odes Quotes

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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

Pulvis et umbra sumsu." ~ Horace, Odes ("We are dust and Shadows")

To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds.

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.