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.
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
Force without reason falls of its own weight.
Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.
Brighter than Parian marble.
Envy is not to be conquered but by death.