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Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.
Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
Use makes things nothing huge, and huge things nothing.
Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
And eat your entrails out with ecstacies.
Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
Obscurity in affection of words and indigested conceits is pedantical and childish.
Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
Too much desire to please, pleasure divorces.
Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
Gentle and noble are their tempers framed,
That can be quicken'd with perfumes and sounds.
Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
Cupid’s bonfires burning in the eye.
Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
But my love is the cordial of souls,
Teaching by passion what perfection is,
In whose fix'd beauties shine the sacred scroll,
And long-lost records of your human bliss,
Spirit to flesh, and soul to spirit giving,
Love flows not from my liver but her living.
Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)