... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.