Horace Quote

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of color.


Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC)


Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of color.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of color.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of color.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of color.