'Now Pay attention. I'll try to be clear. I know these things
are difficult and obscure, but I am full of the hope
of fame: it's as if the thyrsus of Dionysus had struck
my mind, even as my love of the Muses urged me onward
to attempt untrodden paths on the heights of their sacred
mountain.

I love to discover fresh springs that nobody else has drunk
from,
to pluck new flowers and weave a chaplet for my brow
from fields where no one has ever ventured before and the
Muses
have never recognized with this token of novel
achievement.'

-Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
David R. Slavitt trans.