Alexander Pope Quotes about Change

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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

Alexander Pope

Change, Fall, Clouds

Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.12

When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

Alexander Pope

Change, Past, Path

First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.

Alexander Pope

Life, Change, Art

'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 68