"Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy...
For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets'
sinews,
Whose golden touch could soften steel and
stones,
Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands."
- William Shakespeare, from his play Two Gentlemen of Verona
(Painting: "Allegory of the Poet," by Jacob Jordaens, c. 1660)