Whatever your advice, make it brief.
It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.