• Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

    Horace: Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.
    Horace (1928). “Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering”