Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.