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: The Kebra Nagast, is a 14th-century account written in Ge'ez, an ancient South Semitic language that originated in Eritrea and the northern regions of Ethiopia.
