Pluck the day or seize the day phrase used by the roman poet horace to express the idea that one should enjoy life while one can.
What is carpe diem.
Carpe is the second person singular present active imperative of carpÅ pick or pluck used by horace to mean enjoy seize.
How to use carpe diem in a sentence.
Carpe diem is part of horace s injunction carpe diem quam minimum credula postero which appears in his odes i 11 published in 23 bce it can be translated literally as pluck the day trusting as little as possible in.
Carpe diem is a latin aphorism usually though questionably translated seize the day taken from book 1 of the roman poet horace s work odes 23 bc.
Enjoy the present as opposed to placing all hope in the future.
However the actual phrase is not saying to ignore the future but rather to do as much as one.