With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Bio: Guan Zhong was a chancellor and reformer of the State of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history. His given name was Yíwú. Zhong was his courtesy name.
