Soon as the Muse beheld these lines, She said, The Members are preserv'd: But ah, the Head !
Poor Lads! the Storm has whirl'd your Brains around; And all the Sense is ship-wrack'd in the SOUND.
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil
• Henry Miller