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Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Around
Beauty
Both
Contain
Grand
Must
Neither
Oak
Poetry
Rude
Runs
Simply
Truth
Vine
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