The Poems of Alexander Pope Quotes

“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.”
― Alexander Pope, Poems Collected

“Guideless I wander, unregarded mourn,   105 Whilst these exalt their sceptres o’er my urn;”
― Alexander Pope, Complete Works of Alexander Pope

“Elkanah Settle, celebrated as Doeg in Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, wrote Successio in honor of the incoming Brunswick dynasty. Warburton (or possibly Pope) in a note on Dunciad, I. 181, says that the poem was ‘written at fourteen years old, and soon after printed.’ A good instance of Pope’s economy of material will be found in the passage upon which that note bears: an adaptation of lines 4, 17 and 18 of this early poem. It was first published in Lintot’s Miscellanies, 1712.”
― Alexander Pope, Complete Works of Alexander Pope

“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
― Alexander Pope, The Complete Works Of Alexander Pope [Annotated]

“To err is human—to forgive divine.”
― Alexander Pope, The Complete Works Of Alexander Pope [Annotated]

“But always think the last opinion right.”
― Alexander Pope, The Complete Works Of Alexander Pope [Annotated]

“dangerous”
― Alexander Pope, The Complete Works Of Alexander Pope [Annotated]