... a poem.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

—Tennyson, "Oenone."

... a biography.

Cervantes represented his hero as being two-thirds mad, which seems to me to detract from the work since madness is not a proper subject for drama because it robs the work of universality.

—John Stewart Collis, Christopher Columbus, p. 48 (of 208).

... a poem.

The body's pain is blister for the soul's.

—James Elroy Flecker, “Lucretia.”