Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.
They're only truly great who are truly good.
Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.