I can do without his "Iliad," and wait, if necessary, for the "AEneid." Homer cannot live twenty-four hours without my products.

Let him accept, then, the little that I have to offer; and then his muse may instruct, encourage, and console me.
"What! do you say that such should be the condition of one who sings of gods and men?
Alms, with the humiliation and suffering which they bring with them!--what barbarous generosity!"...

Do not get excited, I beg of you.

Property makes of a poet either a Croesus or a beggar; only equality knows how to honor and to praise him.

What is its duty?
To regulate the right of the singer and the duty of the listener.