Poliziano Quote

Someone might object, "But you do not express yourself like Cicero". What of it? I am not Cicero. But I think I express my own self.


Epistolae 8, 16. Quoted in Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance (1995) by Martin L. McLaughlin, p. 203.


Someone might object, But you do not express yourself like Cicero. What of it? I am not Cicero. But I think I express my own self.

Someone might object, But you do not express yourself like Cicero. What of it? I am not Cicero. But I think I express my own self.

Someone might object, But you do not express yourself like Cicero. What of it? I am not Cicero. But I think I express my own self.

Someone might object, But you do not express yourself like Cicero. What of it? I am not Cicero. But I think I express my own self.