"The freedom of poetic license...." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is no place more delightful than home.”

“I hate all children of precocious talent.”

“The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.”

“There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.”

“He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.”

“Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.”

“... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.”

“And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.”

“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.”