The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox. Algernon Charles Swinburne
Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. Minna Antrim
Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text. William James