What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
History marched to the drums of a clear idea...
If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.
The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.