Odes quotes
8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me."
"This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity"
"The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool."
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