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Quotes from Vida's Art of Poetry — Christopher Pitt

1699–1748 England

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To all, proportioned terms he must dispense,
And make the sound a picture of the sense.

Vida's Art of Poetry (1725)

Be sure from nature never to depart;
To copy nature is the task of art.
The noblest poets own her sovereign sway,
And ever follow where she leads the way.

Vida's Art of Poetry (1725)

Nor would I scruple, with a due regard,
To read sometimes a rude unpolished bard,
Among whose labours I may find a line
Which from unsightly rust I may refine,
And, with a better grace, adopt it into mine.

Vida's Art of Poetry (1725)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Christopher Pitt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.