"Clever choices from the past"

Mary Beard's description of the art outside BBC headquarters:

It's one of those neatly simple ideas that works partly because it is so simple, and because it joins the familiar with the strange, and makes clever choices from the past.

I love this and wanted to make sure I saved it somewhere. It seems to me the second part works equally well as a description of Augustan poetry, or of modern poetry with classical influences (like Anne Carson's). 

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