"Can you imagine if somebody told him in the 16th century, 'Listen, you're going to inspire a black girl in the 20th cent..."

"Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie A little nearer Spenser, to make roo..."

"And so sepulchr'd, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die..."