Today’s Poem: The English Epigram

Illustrated by two poems from Walter Savage Landor

A memorial for Apollonius of Tyana in southern Anatolia. (Wikimedia Commons)

True wit, Alexander Pope once memorably suggested, shows us “What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d.” That’s a useful phrase to keep in mind when thinking about sayings, saws, truisms, mnemonics, adages, aphorisms, apophthegms — the whole range of moral and practical …