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Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Source: Upon Roscommon's Translation of Horace, De Arte Poetica.
-- Edmund Waller, (Mar 3 1606-1687), English poet; His adoption of smooth, regular versification prepared the way for the heroic couplet's emergence as the dominant form of poetic expression.