“All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.”
T. E. Hulme (1883–1917) English Imagist poet and critic
Essay on Contemporary American Poetry, in Poetry & Drama (1914), edited by Harold Munro, Vol II
“Percutit ore lyram nomenque relinquit harenis.”
— Gaius Valerius Flaccus, book Argonautica
Strikes his echoing lyre, singing the while, and bequeaths a name to the sands.
Source: Argonautica, Book V, Line 100
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