R e t r a t o

Para los fines de la poesía, 

¿de qué me sirve la sola emoción si no sé expresarla? 

¿Y de qué les sirve a los demás, si no acierto a comunicarla, 

a transmitir hasta ellos la corriente que,

 a su vez, los ponga en emoción?  Alfonso Reyes

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the bible, -or from one of our elder poets, - in a paragraph of to-day's newspaper.

George Eliot