Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.