Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.
There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.
I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.