"[H]aving entered the lists of Poetry, should I be foiled at the first onset, I may probably, like a true knight, who,…"

"The angel, crossing heaven on wings of light, Stooped to admire, and paused upon his flight, As Woman rose in beauty …"

"How long will conquerors trample earth, And Strength prevail o'er Right and Worth? Gaze round the world—this truth co…"

"Old scenes to visit, and old dreams to dream, Shall not to us a task of labour seem."

"I ask El Espinal mayors not to allow more events involving the death of people or animals [after the bullfighting sta…"

"The Roman public's thirst for blood and pleasure in witnessing pain seems to have been unquenchable and without limit…"

"What you are interested in is the art whereby a man using no tricks reduces a raging bull to his dimensions, and this…"

"He was an admirer of the bullfight, and had once drawn my attention to the fact that only cricket and bullfighting ha…"

"There is an image I will never lose, much as I wish I could. It is of a man standing with half his face held in his r…"

"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the p…"