
“Writers move with grace in and out of many worlds.”
Essay, "Writers have good figures". p.56
Writing Down the Bones (1986)
Source: Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions
“Writers move with grace in and out of many worlds.”
Essay, "Writers have good figures". p.56
Writing Down the Bones (1986)
“Mere grace is not enough: a play should thrill
The hearer's soul, and move it at its will.”
Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto
Et, quocumque uolent, animum auditoris agunto.
Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 99 (tr. John Conington)
“Mere grace is not enough: a play should thrill
The hearer's soul, and move it at its will.”
Source: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 175