"A Horse is Poetry in Motion"

"Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride,

Friendship without envy,

Or beauty without vanity?

Here, where grace is served with muscle

And strength by gentleness confined

He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity.

There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent.

There is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
All our history is in his industry.
We are his heirs, he our inheritance."

- Ronald Duncan

 "The Horse," 1954