Horace/works

Famous quotes containing the words horace and/or works:

“I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“...A shadow now occasionally crossed my simple, sanguine, and life enjoying mind, a notion that I was never really going to accomplish those powerful literary works which would blow a noble trumpet to social generosity and noblesse oblige before the world. What? should I find myself always planning and never achieving ... a richly complicated and yet firmly unified novel?”
—Sarah N. Cleghorn (1876–1959)