The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.
It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?