“Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks’ own ladles. Robert Browning
“How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow… Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe. Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Avoid the reeking herd, Shun the polluted flock, Live like that stoic bird The eagle of the rock. Elinor Wylie
“Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity, He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity. His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare, And when you reach the scene of the crime— Macavity’s not there! T. S. Eliot