Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time

No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned.

Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.