Sunday, 2 May 2010

More urgent

than "what oft
was thought, but ne'er
so well express'd"

would be to say
what people rarely
dare to think - lest
it make their
hard minds soft.


[In other words:
To have universal appeal is to convey very aptly
something evident or unoriginal.]

2 comments:

  1. WoflMay 02, 2010

    quotation from Alexander Pope's ESSAY ON CRITICISM:

    "True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd,
    What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;"

    The same poem contains the line
    "A little learning is a dangerous thing."

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  2. WoflMay 13, 2010

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