"Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy"." - Robert Browning

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

... Such a scribe
you pay and praise for putting life in stones,
Fire into fog, making the past your world.
There's plenty of 'How did you contrive to grasp
The thread which led you through this labyrinth?
How build such solid fabric out of air?
How on so slight foundation found this tale,
Biography, narrative?' or, in other words,
How many lies did it require to make
The portly truth you here present us with?

The ultimate, angels' law,
Indulging every instinct of the soul
There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!