John Dryden Quotes


Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today:
Be fair or foul or rain or shine,
The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.


Citations

Dryden, John. "The Twenty-Ninth Ode of the Third Book of Horace." Sylvae: or, The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies. Jacob Tonson, 1685, p. 121.

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John Dryden
John Dryden
  • Born: August 19, 1631
  • Died: May 12, 1700
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet

John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.