Ayoung Apollo, golden-haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife, Magnificently unprepared For the long littleness of life.

-Cornford, Frances ne¤  e Darwin
  Of Rupert Brooke.'Youth'.

In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoo«  n how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
the 1841  'Thoughts on  Art', in The Dial, vol.1, no.3,  Jan.

   Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burne'  d is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man.

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), epilogue.

There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell†divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningöApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light† You enterprised a railroad†you blasted its rocks away† And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.

-Ruskin,John
^8  Praeterita, vol.3, pt.4,'Joanna's Cave', note.

Yea, is not even Apollo, with hair and harpstring of gold, A bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold?

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles
  Poems and Ballads,'Hymn to Proserpine'.