“The Poet in his Art
Must intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.”
The Unexpressed.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Io Victis (1883). Compare: "Now it seems to me, when it can not be helped that defeat is great", Walt Whitman, To a Foiled European Revolutionaire.
“Of every noble work the silent part is best,
Of all expression that which can not be expressed.”
The Unexpressed.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)