When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.