Don Juan 04-107
Canto the Fourth
 
 CVII

If in the course of such a life as was
 At once adventurous and contemplative,
Men, who partake all passions as they pass,
 Acquire the deep and bitter power to give
Their images again as in a glass,
 And in such colours that they seem to live;
You may do right forbidding them to show 'em,
But spoil (I think) a very pretty poem.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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