A Poster for your Wall

This is for the wall of the room where you do your writing. Here’s the quote:

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;
Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
—Alexander Pope

1. Copy this and paste it into your word processor.
2. Set the layout to landscape.
3. It’s poetry, so make it left aligned and the first letter of each line capitalized, if it’s not already set this way.
4. Select the whole thing and make it as big as you can without messing up the line breaks, and still have a margin of a good inch.
5. Change it into an old-fashioned serif font that’s easy to read. (You might need to adjust the size again to keep the line breaks from getting messed up.
6. You can make the attribution line right aligned.
7. Put a border around it.

Hang it proudly on your wall, and do what it says!

PS: Here’s another one from Mr. Pope that I like:

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.