Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise. - Thomas Fuller
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. - Edgar Allan Poe