The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

诗人的卷轴将比石头的纪念碑更耐久。天才生存;其他的一切都是由死亡来支配的。

-- Edmund Spenser 斯宾塞