Wife Nothing Man For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one. - Hesiod
Rest Men The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest. - Hesiod
Wealth Man False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth. - Hesiod
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise. - Robert Fitzgerald