“The sword within the scabbard keep,
And let mankind agree.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 61–62.
“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
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Mortal arm and nerve must feel.
