Nothing is swifter than rumor.
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
Let your poem be kept nine years.
It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
Who's started has half finished.