Odors of orange-flowers and spice
  Reached them from time to time,
Like airs that breathe from Paradise
  Upon a world of crime. 
               
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow is, perhaps, my favorite poet.  Most only know him from the bit of children's doggerel**, and that's such a shame.  He had such a masterful way with words and such keen insight into the human heart.  He created so many memorable phrases, too, that people all these years later still repeat, not knowing at all that they were first thought of and written down by dear Henry.  Oh, well, into each life some rain must fall.
Now who said that...?

We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints
on the sand of time

** "I'm a poet but don't know it, but my feet do because they're long fellows."